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Originally Posted by bjones6416
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 bothers me, and I can't do that if someone is reading it to me!
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I was just thinking the same thing. I was on a list once where someone complained about the "too much swearing" in the J. D. Robb "in Death" books. I remember thinking at the time that I didn't think there was much. Once I started listening to them in audiobook format, though, I started to realize just how much there is!
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).