At least now I know I'm not alone on wondering why they say "cute" when there are so many better words.
During our forefather's time, the women stayed in the caves. They spent a lot of time at home. With nothing better to do, they would gather and spent time looking at cute things like baby birds (the real one, ok!), flowers, and what have yous.
They spent time admiring these things, and since language was not well developed at that time, they had to think of a simple word to describe the nature of the things. "Cute" was suggested because it was easy to pronounce. Ciuk, kwiik, quuick, e.t.c. actually mean cute. Just different ways of pronouncing.
The men, however, were not involved in this female-bonding thingy, so they really could not understand why the women went "wah, cute" when they saw things that they saw all the time, like pebbles, rabbits, and babies.
To the men, a stone was to be used to clobber your enemy but the women viewed the stone as cute due to its special colour, shape and texture. The men viewed rabbits as food, while the women think they were, well, cute. The men viewed babies as by-product of something shiok they did.
The men would then say of the "cute" rabbit, "OK lah, should be tasty and boneless". The women failed to understand why the men failed to see that that particular rabbit is different form thousands of other rabbits out there.
What the women really failed to understand was that as hunter-gatherers, the men had to face all sorts of dangers. Who would have time to admire the baby tiger when the its mother is threatening to chew the men's balls off?
When chasing the rabbits, the last thing the men noticed was how cute the rabbits were. Where got time, right??
