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Unless it's way over the top, I don't notice it too much. The exception is when listening to audiobooks -- for some reason I find it more offensive if I'm hearing it instead of reading it silently. Maybe that means if I'm reading it to myself I tend to skim over it if it bothers me, and I can't do that if someone is reading it to me!
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Having said that, though, I don't mind profanity, if it fits the character/situation. I'll admit, after watching The Sopranos, I sometimes snicker at the "grittier" police dramas on other channels, which has full-grown, blue-collar men saying "darn" and "shoot". ('Course, that might have as much to say about my own blue-collar roots. My brothers are quite creative with their cursing, although my father seldom uses it). |
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I like fiction that typically has a lot of swearing (think Chuck Palahniuk), and it doesn't bother me at all, but I notice I tend to clear my palate with a mind-numbing cozy mystery.
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Maybe there needs to be CAPalert-style reviews of books.
http://www.capalert.com/capreports/blairwitch.htm http://www.capalert.com/capreports/southpark.htm |
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Personally, I think meromana's post (below) captures it better for me. If the profanity is character appropriate and believable, I don't have a problem with it. Quote:
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Perhaps more familiar to British English profanity users than American English users - here's a clue for anyone else struggling to work it out; when they are possessed by dogs they are considered to be rather good
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And this possibly brings up another point in this discussion --what may be terribly offensive to one person may not mean much to another, based on culture and personal experience. |
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And as an adjunct to that, how far up our list of priorities should be the avoidance of causing offense to other people?
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E.g the perfectly innocent English word "fitter" is plural Norwegian for c*nt. (*=u). "Fart" is a perfectly innocent and in daily use Norwegian word, and it means "speed" og "velocity". There are numerous more examples, though I gave here (at least one) of the ruder exaples. |
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I don't mind it if it helps to convey a character's nature. The one book I remember being turned off by the excessive profanity was Melusine by Sarah Monet. It seemed that every sentence had an f-bomb.
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