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AP/ M.HERALD/ M. Stevenson / A fascinating examination of the influence of drug violence on Mexican culture and vocabularies.
"There are a half dozen words for drug cartel informants, and double that for drug war dead. "Narco" has become a general prefix. The trend has people worrying that Mexico is developing a kind of offhand jargon that anesthetizes people by making escalating violence seem routine.
Some experts, however, say slang and euphemisms can help people deal with the horrors around them."
