[He wonders that too. This isn't slang, it's swearing. There's a difference.

He just sighs. Guess he'll have to mind his language here so he doesn't have to explain, instead of so Nynaeve doesn't hit him. Not that he'd been near Nynaeve for a while.

How old is this kid anyway? Olver hadn't even asked things like that when they first found him.]

It's...You know how you hear some words and when you repeat them someone tells you not to because they're bad? It's one of those things. [HOPEFULLY that makes sense.]