I belong to a camera club and recently attended a meeting where the teacher offended me with her language. I considered ignoring the experience but then decided to write this person an email to tell her of my feelings. Have you ever done anything like this?
This is the letter I wrote to her...You are doing a great job leading our group and with your lesson today. I'm impressed. I do want to mention however with your teaching today that I was shocked each time you used the words "Oh God!" in your presentation. I'm sure it's just a part of your daily normal speech, and it's not offensive to you in any way, but it was to me. I found myself stopped each time you used that phrase-about 5-6 different times. I know some people like Carl (another teacher) use "damn" and "hell" to be colorful in their teaching but somehow using a name for deity "God" just seemed inappropriate in a public teaching situation. I wanted you to know this. Sincerely, Lin Floyd Her response was-Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I will be aware of that in the future.
Then I'm watching last night a new series on genealogy called Who do you think you are? presented by www.ancestry.com. They traced the ancestors of Sarah Jessica Parker whose every other word was "Oh my god" although she did once say "Oh my gosh." My mom used to use that same expression all the time too. It was difficult to communicate with her my reaction to that phrase since it didn't mean the same thing to her. Give me your take on this.