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[bluflamingo]

If you were looking for a word with the same feeling as 'jeez,' as in 'jeez, McKay, inappropriate much?' but couldn't use it because the person saying it doesn't come from a culture that has Jesus, and hence can't have jeez, what word would you use instead?

(It's not Teyla, despite the icon, but it is someone who was raised in Pegasus, and hence has the Ancients as Gods thing)

It's driving me nuts, to the point of wanting to leave it in, except that now I've noticed, I can't *un-notice* it and it'll bug me every time I look at the story from now on.

My sanity thanks you for any suggestions :o)

Comments

[immoralilly.livejournal.com]

God! Even though jeez is specificially Christian, every culture has a god so that should be safe. Alternatively, grab an Ancient name that's mentioned on the show and use it.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Alternatively, grab an Ancient name that's mentioned on the show and use it.

And now I'm thinking how much easier life would be if the show had thought of that (I'm still hung up on Larrin saying 'what the hell, Sheppard?' because it just sounds so Earth-English to me).

Do the residents of Pegasus know of individual ancients, do you think, or are they just a mass of unidentified ancients (which would make a great curse- oh, unidentified ancients preserve me!)

[slybrarian.livejournal.com]

I'd bet that some names might still be know, even if garbled. Of course, then you've got the religious wars over the proper name of the Great Ancestor Idiotscientist, which is only aggravated when certain parties come along and tell everyone that not only is neither side correct and that the Ancestor was not so great.

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

Chaya Sar was known in godly form by the name Athar, though one would suppose that religion was confined to Proculus what with the orbital gate.