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Mark T. B. Carroll ([personal profile] mtbc) wrote2016-09-08 06:27 pm
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God bless you

If people sneeze then it feels polite to say bless you but also so very silly. I don't think they're at risk of lethal plague or cardiac arrest or soul displacement or anything else popularly thought to relate to the sense of the wish and I suspect nobody else does either. It also sounds a bit impolitely imperative in any brief form. Am I interpreting the response wrongly? Has it a worthy successor?
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