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Exclamations (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: An archaic word for these is "ejaculations". Now, imagine 12 year old me, having read old British fiction from like 1700s-1800s and picking up on archaic words like that and using them in front of my peers.

I didn't have a pleasant childhood. heh.

Also, "golly" was mentioned as a non-religious one, but "golly" ultimately comes from "God", so… alas, it doesn't qualify.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

A lot of them are bowdlerizations or minced oaths of religious ones, or at least memetic drift streamlining them. Zounds, struth, darn, gosh, jeeze... tarnation.

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