Indeed. If the idea is just to retrain a habitual response, why not pick a sneezing ritual from another culture? Wikipedia has an entire list of responses to sneezing in various languages. Apparently “Sanon” is the correct response in Esperanto. Could lead to some interesting conversations, while remaining plausible.
Why “ducks” in particular?
Because “frogs” would be totally weird?
Indeed. If the idea is just to retrain a habitual response, why not pick a sneezing ritual from another culture? Wikipedia has an entire list of responses to sneezing in various languages. Apparently “Sanon” is the correct response in Esperanto. Could lead to some interesting conversations, while remaining plausible.