About Second Language Pragmatics

Here is something might not really related to language pragmatics but it is interesting. In America, we should avoid to say somebody fat. Since Spanish is another popular languague in the States, sometimes I heard people say it in Spanish to refer to someone who they disliked. In Spanish, for the same meaning, "Gordo" is for a male, "gorda" for a female. In this way, people can say what they want but not show rude in public since not everybody know Spanish.