AUGUSTO GÓMEZ SERRANO - Bogotá (Colombia)
According to the Real Spanish Academy, CARAJO is the word with which was nominated to the small layette that was in the high of the masts of the caravels (old ships) and from where the mastheads surveyed the horizon in search of earth signs.
The CARAJO, given their location in an area of a lot of uncertainty (in the high of the mast it is where it is manifested with more intensity the rolido or lateral movement of a ship) a place was also considered of "I punish" for those marines that made some infraction on board.
The one punished was a correspondent to complete hours and until whole days in the CARAJO and when it lowered the toward so sick that he stayed calm for a good couple of days. Of there the expression comes to SEND TO THE CARAJO and the variants that below are detailed. The carajo is an institution. It is the word that defines the whole range of human feelings and all the states of I encourage.
How many times, when appreciating that a thing is good or you like it, you have not exclaimed: "This this but good that the carajo."
If the form of coming from a person causes you then admiration you say: "That type is of the carajo."
If a merchant is depressed by the current situation and for the state of her business, she exclaims: "If this continues we will have this way to leave pa'l carajo."
When one meets with a friend that have not gone for a long time, he greets this way him: "Carajo boy that is of your life, where carajo had you it put to' this time?
If he speaks to you a foreign one and don't you understand what says, you ask to the one he interprets "That carajo what says this is?
If you bother yourself with somebody you send it pal' carajo.
If you care something little, you care a carajo, but... If that you care something a lot, then you care but that the carajo.
CARAJO! AND there is not anything that it cannot be defined, to explain or to emphasize without adding a carajo. For that reason it is that I am sending you this congratulation of the carajo, and if you are not a carajo, he has to please you their content but that the carajo.
I want that pass a very happy season and but good that the carajo, now and always. If you leave vacations that the passes of the carajo.
That woman (that man) this but good (or) que'l carajo...
He sends them this who appreciates them more than the carajo.
Corollary:
Starting from this moment we will be able to CARAJO to say, or to send to somebody to the CARAJO, with a little but of culture and academic authority...
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