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• Tundra_Lifeform@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Thanks bro, gee is what I was going for, kisses from Eastern Europe, or, as we call it, Gesus land

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  • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, your English is much better than my Eastern European. :) No clue you weren’t a native English speaker, so there’s that <3

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The intermediate step is “Jeez.”

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  • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The post-step is “Geezie willikers!” :)

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Was going to add “Gee Whiz” which comes before that one? Like it got shorter, then it got longer again?

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      • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh, I thought that was the… just… regulat step. hehe.

        I guess for some sort of vaguely-serious discussion^[which I find interesting but most others don’t lol], without doing any research, I think Jesus / Jesus Christ has stably evolved to Gee, with some variants like Gee Whiz being pretty common. I think Gee Willikers was more common around the TV Batman era and so now it’s less said straight and more said ironically. heh. I can’t think of any other common “Gee [something]”… maybe “Geezie Kreezie”, but I’ve only heard that from Suzy^[previously Eddie] Izzard, so not sure if that’s common or not. lol

        It definitely got short; I wonder if we’d count a second word as it getting longer, or a second word replacing “Christ”. These are the types of inconsequential discussions I love. :)

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      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s like nicknames. First it’s Joseph, then Joe, then Alexander Jonaparte.

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