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- From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
- Subject: Re: Curses Soiled Again (was Re: Deep beliefs)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.173351.10794@eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:33:51 GMT
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- In article <Pine.2.4.9212221000.C21228@mickey.cc.utexas.edu> Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU> writes:
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- >I'm trying to get out of the habit myself, but find myself presented with
- >a bit of a problem. To say "[By the] Goddess!" instead of "God!" is not
- >only stilted at present, but it tends to sound like a bad fantasy novel.
- >And the more prevalent examples of pagan oaths in the language ("By Jove!"
- >"Zounds!" and so on) make me think I should have a monocle. "Ye gods!"
- >doesn't work either, because I keep waiting for someone to say "Great honk!"
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- I occasionally put myself on a crusade to clean up my langauge
- (hard to believe I know). I find that "Glory" works as a good enough
- substitute for "God" or "Jesus". Yeah, it sounds a little hokey, but
- just about anything does in place of the usuals. "Filthin'" works as
- a pretty good substitute, also.
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