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Originally Posted by M T McGuire
Harry T, I used to work for a coach company and that was pretty much the chant when something went wrong.
ScalyFreak, I absolutely agree, pretend swearing is just phoney, I tend to think that either I should do it properly or not at all. No half arsed, half way cobblers.
Cheers
MTM
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Depends what you mean by "pretend" ? For example in if I was telling a story set in modern day US and the character needed to curse for some reason, I would expect to see one of the modern curses. I have a character in one of my books that is not set in modern day that takes her god's name in vain, makes no sense for her to say JC or whatever since its not our modern day, but she does the same with her god. So that is a "pretend" curse? I think using a "modern" curse in that case would be more pretend then my made up one.
I think that has been said in this thread already, but felt it needed repeating.
