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Originally Posted by kcmay
Characters' swearing can be taken too far (Melusine by Sarah Monette), but I don't mind (and use) situation-appropriate swearing. If a f-ing character is in the f-ing habit of f-ing swearing every other f-ing word, maybe there's a way to f-ing get that across without f-ing bogging down the f-ing story with all those f-ing f-bombs.  |
I certainly know people who talk like that. I find it tedious personally - it shows that the speaker has an extremely restricted vocabulary.
As a side-note, I've always found the American use of this word "f-bomb" to refer to the word "fuck" very amusing. Is it supposed to be less "shocking"?