I’m proud to be a Malaysian Chinese. We truly have the most colorful culture and might i say, language.

We were sort of discussing something (that i now obviously have no memory off) and the matter of foul language made in into our topic. He was saying that his colleagues were teaching their ang moh bosses bad words which turned out to be a hilarious and amusing session of head scratching, mispronunciations, finger pointing and ended in satisfied back patting. I could only imagine. Besides a few mothers who got cursed and maybe the few genitalia which got ‘applauded’, no one was hurt.

But one thing that i’m definitely sure is, their bosses had just had the most interesting lesson of the Chinese language. We Chinese have really got a way with foul words. Not only do we curse our poor opponent, we also curse his/her mother (usually female gets it more than others -_-”) and if we have our way, his/her ancestors and the generations to come would be roped into the fight and be condemned for eternity. -_-”. Heck if we had our way, not even the genitalia or innards would be spared.

When the Chinese curse, we do it to perfection. *wakakakaka!

For example:-
tiu lei (fark you)
tiu lei ah ma (fark your mother)
tiu lei ah ma chao hai (fark your mother’s smelly pussy)

Not only do we find it necessary to involve the opponent’s family members, we are also master of description. Note the word ‘smelly’.

Another example is, in English we used the word ‘shit’ quite freely. Like when we accidentally bang into the cupboard we say “Shit!”. Or if we forgot to wear socks to work we say “Shit!”. Or when someone forgot to hand you the assignment you call him/her “Shit head!”. But Chinese language doesn’t stop just there. Shit is not disgusting enough. Instead of just “Shit”, we say “Sik Si!” (“Eat shit!”).

What else could you think of? I can think of a thousand and one Chinese foul words that are so creative it’ll make you puke. But let’s censor those for now.

Let’s just say, you haven’t learned your bad words till you learned it the Chinese way.