Foul Language

I will always remember my army platoon Gun Loader - Ah Gu (Cow in hokkian).

Why is he so special?

Because his use of foul language in his speech. Every single sentence that come out from his mouth, there will be foul contents, without fail.

I used to be quite pissed off with him. Just cannot comprehen how come he choose such a bad way to communicate....

That was until...I go to NUS and attend the technical writing module.

After lesson we kind of chit-chat with the tutor on language and I brought up the case of Ah Gu to her attention and see if she can make some sense out of it.

The explaination is : THE FOUL CONTENTS ARE JUST FILLERS.

You see - their brain works slower than their mouth. So while the brain is think very very hard on what to say... their mouth do not feel like stopping as if it will show their weakness. So the mouth throw out those word to fill up the space, take up some time, so that it will allow the brain to have abit more time to think.

So actually those words don't mean a thing to them. Dun let them affect you.

Imagine also a 512 K CPU trying the perform the complicated calculations and the speaker meanwhile generate some noises...

Well funny enough, after listened and accepted the explaination, i am no longer angry with Ah Gu any more...the anger has suddenly subsided and a sense of sorry for him emerge instead.

Funny once you know certain background / info / explaination...one strong emotional feeling can quickly transform into another one...

It has tought me to be open for more input b4 making any strong judgement against anyone. Just to share with you.