I HATE the nauseatingly used "oh my god"

[thesummerqueen]

George Carlin had a lot to say about words and the way they are used - things comedians have to know (if they're any good) to promote their craft on stage. He had an excellent bit on how the feminists (specifically) wanted to change language to exclude certain ways of naming things - he agreed because "the quality of our thoughts is only as good as the quality of our language" but he also thought they took some things too far. I think this is one of them.

Of course, everyone's entitled to their own pet peeves (or, to quote Carlin again, "major psychotic fucking hatreds"), but we use "god swears" because society has attached a certain importance and vehemence behind them, not because we (as in non-believers) are believing in god for the nanosecond it takes to say it, and I personally think it's a waste of time to get irritated over it. If you're aware someone's a non-believer, I think it's fairly well understood that someone shouting "Oh my god!" about something is only an expression of shock, awe, disbelief, etc, that has a different connotation than saying "Oh my goodness!" or "Oh my word!" or whatever. Although I personally have used Void's method in many situations and replaced god with fuck...mostly because that's my favorite word.