Stuff like “god damn”, “fucking hell”, etc. Anything that stems from religious sources. That includes fudged varieties like “jeez/geez” and “heck”.

And to clarify, this isn’t some attempt to avoid blasphemy or anything. I’m not particularly religious and would rather rewrite the neural pathways for those “defaults”, but haven’t been able to come up with satisfactory alternatives so far.

*To clarify further, I’m all good with most other curses (shit, fuck, ass, etc). I’m not trying to be inoffensive, just non-religious.

  • corsicanguppyEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I think you’re going about this the wrong way. If you’ve ever heard a quebecer curse, you know that religious curses are the absolute best.

    I had a franco sergeant in basic training; this charismatic 22nd-regiment killing machine who got seriously next-level expressive one day and all but peeled the paint off the walls. I knew a lot of French back then, and I only caught most of it as it was so fast, so angry; it was snarling and visceral and seething for 0715.

    What I did catch was religious. All of it. I’m surprised I’m alive today. I’m surprised I wasn’t brutally murdered on the spot. I’m glad I wore the brown pants.

    I think you’re severely limiting yourself by leaving that nuke in the silo; that’s all I’m saying.