Quote Originally Posted by Kd7sov View Post
Again, a great deal can be conveyed with tone of voice.
While that's true, I have a hard time imagining a tone in which "Sweet Celestia" doesn't have that inherent element of "I'm surprised at this", at least a little. Maybe just me.

Also in written form all you have are the words, so you need words that work without a specific tone, or which have that tone built in, so to speak.