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0 pointssneak3y ago0 comments

I have substituted "gesundheit" ("health") for "bless you" for this very reason.

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herewulf3y ago

Likewise. It's pretty amazing how widespread a German word such as this managed to become.

unsupp0rted3y ago

At some point gesundheit made it into the zeitgeist and I feel schadenfreude for the people who said it wouldn't.

Lio3y ago

Well if any German word isn't kaputt we should definitely borrow it into English.

dotancohen3y ago

Why not simply say "Health" then? How is cultural assimilation any better than a phrase that has not had religious connotations for a century and a half?

thombat3y ago

Sounds like a shortened "Your health!" which as a toast should be accompanied by all present having a charged glass in their hand.

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