The God ones bother me especially a lot, how integrated they are into my language. I don't worry about 'damn', since it has a secular context too, but the others? God, Jesus, and Christ? Hell, too. It bothers me that I use them, but they're SO hard to excise because I don't like made-up cusses -- they just SOUND contrived. :/
The only one I've really managed to get rid of is "Bless you," which I have replaced wholesale with "Gesundheit."
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on 2010-12-08 09:44 pm (UTC)The God ones bother me especially a lot, how integrated they are into my language. I don't worry about 'damn', since it has a secular context too, but the others? God, Jesus, and Christ? Hell, too. It bothers me that I use them, but they're SO hard to excise because I don't like made-up cusses -- they just SOUND contrived. :/
The only one I've really managed to get rid of is "Bless you," which I have replaced wholesale with "Gesundheit."