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Teo Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Oh my God/goodness.

Someone tells me that it's impolite to say "Oh my God." The polite alternative is "Oh my goodness." Do you agree?
  

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" Do you agree? I think that few people today would object to "Oh, my ***". Their sensitivities should be considered, however.

— Philip

  • " Do you agree?
  • I think that few people today would object to "Oh, my ***".
  • Their sensitivities should be considered, however.
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TeoSomeone tells me that it's impolite to say "Oh my ***." The polite alternative is "Oh my goodness." Do you agree?
I think that few people today would object to "Oh, my ***". Their sensitivities should be considered, however.
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I agree to some extent. I've noticed that Oh my *** is avoided on television, for example, and Oh my goodness or Oh my gosh is almost always used instead. Oh my *** is perfectly fine among friends who don't object to it, of course.

CJ
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A number of years ago I was on a cruise to Alaska, and we went into Glacier Bay. As 1200 people stood watching, when the glacier calved, it was "Oh, my ***". As a choir director, I couldn't have directed it much more perfectly. I began to wonder if that was "the origin of the phrase".
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Affirmative! I guess everybody needs to stop using lord's name in vain every now and then.
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