--The single word "Can" means, "yes, it's possible," or "You are allowed to do that."

--In normal conversations, when someone is telling me something, the phrase "so-called" always crops up. I suppose it is the equivalent of the Tagalog "kuwan". It wasn't easy for me to catch up because it is usually pronounced "sukot", and, at first, I thought it was a Bahasa Malay word.