On 16 June 2011 15:26, Barry L. Kline <blkline at attglobal.net> wrote:
On 06/16/2011 10:03 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
I personally amended my curses to "gods
damnit" (etc.) so the
christians don't pounce on me and tell me I do secretly believe every
time I lose my temper. Gods plural seems to instantly set one aside
from almost every major religious group except the Hindu.
"gods dammit" was used in the updated "Battlestar Galactica" series.
Yes indeed. I was doing it first, though, honest! :?) I draw the line
at "frack", though.
ISTM that for a US series, the whole polytheist-mainstream and
heretical monotheistic underground must have been quite transgressive
over there. Is that so?
It doesn't have much cultural relevance in the rest of the
English-speaking world, which is fairly multicutural and
religion-free.
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