吉隆坡塔動物園一隻叫nabeh的動物

罵髒話和一個人的文化水平沒有直接的關係。

罵髒話不代表妳文化水準低。相反的，不罵髒話也不代表妳文化水準高。比方說，我跟車間的同學去喝酒，同學問我要不要唱歌，我接連搖了幾次頭。同學便開玩笑地說：你的小鳥應該會唱歌唄？

同學所指的鳥並不是動物學的鳥，她所指的鳥其實是屌。

鳥(niǎo)是屌(diǎo)通過聲母撤換之後得來的，轉音之後，鳥的不雅指數似乎有所降低。

中國有許多文人有時也跟同學一樣喜歡用鳥來稱呼人。著名學者胡適先生就曾經用鳥來形容北洋政府。

大家合起來，趕掉這群狼，推翻這鳥政府，起一個新革命，造一個好政府，那才是好政府的紀念了！
首見於1921年10月，為紀念辛亥十週年而發表的《雙十節的鬼歌》。《胡適文集》卷九，第178頁

幾年後我們看見魯迅先生在文章裡面也用鳥來稱呼人。

問什麼荊棘塞途的老路，尋什麼烏煙瘴氣的鳥導師！
首見於1925年5月，魯迅在《莽原》週刊一篇叫《導師》的文章。《魯迅全集》卷三，第56頁
Blue Bird的手作羊毛氈—兩隻可愛的羊駝娃娃

鳥語一番後讓我接著說馬，我要說的其實是一種不馬不羊不駝、一種叫草泥馬的動物。這種動物，你可以在吉隆坡塔旁邊的小動物園找到。草泥馬其實是髒話「肏妳媽」的淨化版，據說它是十年前中國網友的發明。

吉隆坡塔動物園靠近出口的地方養了一只叫草泥馬的羊駝，我在出園前給它的四隻腳趾頭照了一張特寫。

因為馬的閩南發音是bé／beh，所以我們也可以把羊駝叫成nabeh。Nabeh和草泥馬一樣，是「我肏你媽」的淨化版。不同的是，nabeh省略的是主詞「我」、動詞「肏」還有「媽」的「女」字旁。

跟nabeh同源的髒話還有niamah和walaueh等，我的許多同學都喜歡把nabeh，niamah和walaueh等字掛在嘴邊，習慣性將它們當語氣助詞來強化語句。當然nabeh，niamah和walaueh是在眾多髒話裡頭相對比較乾淨的幾個，所以聽入耳也不覺有太大的殺傷力。不過，我孩子的媽媽還是不喜歡她的兩個兒子開口閉口walaueh。



Nabeh | niamah | walaueh，草泥馬和其他比較乾淨的髒話

當我們用這些字的時候，其實是完全沒有肏你媽的意思在句子裡頭的。本地著名播音人Patrick Teoh的其中一個部落格就是用niamah來命名的，而他也喜歡用niamah來總結他寫的貼文。例如，幾天前為了表示他對反假新聞法案的關注，Patrick Teoh在臉書上寫道：

Read this carefully. If this bill is passed into law I reckon that a lot of Malaysians will be in jail. Or bankrupt. Niamah!!!

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