What Have You Believed? On Trending Profanities

Just as the German proverb says, “Clothes maketh the man”, the words that you speak are like the clothing you wear on your body. Say, you consistently use a certain four-letter word when something bad is about to happen. Because of your constant use of that word,  it becomes easily extrapolated from your subconscious mind

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Same Same but Different but Same Same

During my travels to Korat and Bangkok, Thailand in the late 90’s, at many bazaars, one would hear stall owners saying ’Same same’ in their local accent to customers, in the bid to convey that their products were similar in quality but cheaper than the next stall’s. As years went by, this would become iconic

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