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Bog in many slavic languages is God in English and used in many proverbs and idioms. This makes a hilarious headline, I thought this was about exiting god mode.


Huh! There is a YA novel I really like, The Girl Who Drank The Moon, and this casts that in a very interesting light.

There is a bog -- a swamp -- that covers the known world, and this bog is treated in a religious way by the author as the embodiment of nature, of the fertility of the world. The bog also spawns a bog monster, who may have been the first living creature.

"In the beginning, there was the Bog. And the Bog covered the world and the Bog was the world and the world was the Bog."


Bogged has also come to mean something like 'having had drastic plastic surgery' in some circles, the expression being derived from 'Bogdanoff'.


Y'all probably also know that bog means "toilet" in British English...


But a real Limey would never say "Y'all", so we don't believe you.


You don't need to be British to know that. I'm not, and I did.


Some say bog mode is harder to exit than vi.




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