i love xiaohui's fave phrase: simi sai?!?

it's soo ah lian - in a genteel kind of way. like, pretend you're in lecture and then you realise the prof's added in 8 extra lastminute slides you now have to copy by hand AND include the elaboration he peppers randomly. so, all together now: SIMI SAI?!
great, isn't it? and it's even better when you do it in a high, shrill voice; all that sssibilant alliteration just releassses the toxxxic irritation in a great hissssss!

and the best thing about it (that gives it a more dignified, civilised character) is that you can just stop. right there. this is as compared to the stronger kena SAI ah --- ! with a hard guttural consonant beginning and a markedly beng ring that impels one to follow through with @$^$#%!  in escalating intensity. whereas the most you could do after the former, is to carry on the same highpitched, nasal whine.

the psychophonetics of vulgarities fascinates me, but the vulgarities-attracting lecture notes beckon more urgently - but now, with all the ssSSssssSs taken out of me, i can only emit a resigned, depressed, CO₂-expelling sighhhh.
hurhur, melodrama makes my day.