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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
I must read the wrong books as I rarely encounter profanity. Or else I'm just inured to it?
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Originally Posted by frisp
Thinking that be my own problem too. I don't really cotton on to the swearing, maybe just from my own background (ex-RAF).  |
yeah, like that. and ex Army here
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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
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).
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what's even more of a stand out is when it is beeped (or silenced). a lot of the British stuff that gets shown on PBS here has language that cannot be used on American TV. one show I watch quite regularly and have never really noticed a bunch of *silencing* must have had a special episode. I think sh*t was "not said" at least 15 times. I noticed because of the silencing. I probably would not have noticed had it not been silenced