【我的故事】《嘴形 Mouth shape》|林颖昭 Amelin |

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喂，你有没有注意过其实每个人的嘴形都不一样？
有一天， 香蕉问木瓜道。
什么嘛。。。木瓜不解，求解释。

就是，不能说大家的嘴巴都大同小异，其实是有很大的分别的。香蕉头头似道地说着。

嗯。。。。 木瓜稍微意义深长地思索，然后附和，也对啦，其实大家说话的咬字啊，还是语气口吻都和嘴形有着密切的关联。

嗯，我在学校的时候啊，每次都很注意葡萄先生在课堂上说话的，但是我每次竟然看不到他的上排牙齿叻，只看得到下面那一排牙齿。我怎样努力看都好，也只看得到上排一点灰灰色。香蕉有趣地解释一番。

木瓜听了呵呵笑，什么跟什么嘛，好笑，上排只看到一点灰灰色。。。他想象到了葡萄先生的样子，整个胡须脸，说起话也好像没张开嘴巴似的，神情呆板呆板，好像思绪不知道遨游在何方。木瓜实在没有注意过葡萄先生的嘴巴，只是每次看到他时只想避开他尖刺刺的胡楂。

但是木瓜又想起了在猴子国中的时候， 那个牛奶女士教国文时也是只是露出下面的一排牙齿。香蕉就说，那个教生物学的茄子女士不也一样？ 木瓜瞪大眼睛，好像寻索到新线索一样兴奋，对对对对对！茄子也是这样的！

香蕉又例出另外一宗反例，就是竹竿先生那个上排牙齿不是好像翘出来吗，他每次大笑的时候还可以看到他厚厚上面嘴唇内侧的肉呢！

由于竹竿先生并没有教木瓜的班级， 木瓜靠想象力把竹竿先生大笑的表情凭空想象出来，那个厚厚的嘴唇内侧的肉都看得到。。。尔。。。真是有些恶心。

对呀，香蕉，如果一个人说话看到上排牙齿就是他们下颚缩进去了，没有下巴一样；反之一个人说话看到下排牙齿便是他们下颚突出，好像下巴被拉长了。 所以那个嘴唇的皮啊，才可以那么完整地遮盖另一排牙齿，遮到连我们都看不到了。

有意思有意思，香蕉同意。然后说，那你还记得上次我们在杂货店看到的那个安娣吗？我们没有看到她有牙齿。。。。

是哦，她没牙齿是什么意思啊？莫非掉光了不成？可是她没有很老啊，六十出头吧。。。
我们阿公阿麽都七十多还有很多牙呀。木瓜觉得奇怪。

香蕉就说，阿公阿麽的是假牙啦！

Hey, do you ever notice the shapes of human's mouths?
One day, Benana asked Papeya.
What nonsense are you talking about? Papeya showed bewilderment profile.

What I mean is that we cannot accuse that everyone's mouth is overall the same shape because if you experiment them intently, you will beshock by how humongous the difference could be. Benana said as he plunged in a deep pool of thought.

Papeya cocked his eyebrow while receiving Benana's information, and nodded. Indeed, he said, every individual speaks with ever slightly switch of tones, accents and pronunciation of words with their own authentic characteristics.

You see, Benana said, when I am in class, I always pay close attention to Mr. Grepe's moving mouth, and I noticed that I can't visibly spot Mr.Grepe's upper row of teeth, but in a most prominent manner his lower row of teeth.
No matter how great concentration I fixed on my subject, I could only manage to snatch a peek of a thin grey layer of substance of his teeth. Benana explained with a tint of muse on his face.

Papeya broke into a dreamy giggles, bemused by Benana's mention of Mr.Grepe's thin layer of grey substance. He pictured the face of Mr.Grepe which portrait a patch of stingingly mustache surrounded his mouth. For Papeya didn't attend Mr.Grepe's lessons, he didn't contain the impression of Mr.Grepe's specifically otherly fashion of the mouth. Occasionally brief counter with Mr.Grepe at the school hallways has just render Papeya the notion of evading the undesirable sight of Mr.Grepe's prickly hair of chin.

Papeya reflected continuously, "you remember the Mrs. Millk that taught us Malay when we were still in Munkey middle school? She also protruded her lower row of teeth when she was speaking. " Benana reacted excitedly and said, "the Mrs. Egplant that taught us Biology in grade eleven was also only showing her lower part of teeth when she's talking!" "Yes yes yes! Indeed indeed indeed!"shouted Benana interestingly like he had found a new clue through a mystery.

Benana stated another examples about another sensei in school, the Mr.Bambo. "Doesn't he own an upper row of teeth that protruded outwards, it makes his lips turned inside out when he laughs. " Papeya imagined it in his brain and felt kind of disgusting.

That's true, said Papeya to Benana. If one's upper row of teeth can be seen when speaking, that means he doesn't really have a chin. If in the opposite way, one's lower row of teeth be seen when talking means they have longer chin then ordinary people.

" Right, do you remember the auntie that we encounter in the grocery shop few days ago? I see that she has no teeth at all !" Benana exclaimed with curiousity.

"Are you sure she has no teeth at all, she was quite young an age for an old folk, she looked only slightly over sixty-years-old right? Compared to our grandpa and ma, they are already in their eighties and still hold their teeth! How poor a lady is she!"

Benana just replied indifferently," Grandpa and ma are using false teeth, that's why the teeth won't fall."

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