"When I had just come to Taiwan I thought the Taiwanese dialect was very uncouth. For instance, calling one's own parents A-Ba and A-Bu really was dreadfully coarse compared with the Ye and Niang used in educated Fuzhou speech. For one's 'behind' they said kachunhou [meaning 'buttocks' in Taiwanese]. 'Educated people in Fuzhou would never say that.
「剛回台灣時，我感覺台灣話很土，例如自己的父母稱『阿爸』、『阿母』，跟福州官話『爺』、『娘』相比，實在土得不得了，又如『後面』說成『卡春後（台語：屁股），』福州的讀書人絕不會如此說。