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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But that means your character has had to have seen Bogwan's ass to know it's hairy. Um... no thanks.
I'll give you a curse I use when I get pissed... "F'ing Hell!" It works and it relies on no God type personage at all. "Bollocks!" is one used by UKers. But I still like mine better. It gets the your pissed out there more. And you do tend to curse more when angry and it has to be something that sounds like you'd say when angry.
"By Bogwan's Hairy Ass!" just doesn't have that I'm pissed sound to it. Neither does most of what's suggested. If it doesn't have that I'm pissed/angry sound to it, then it falls flat due to being unrealistic. You get pissed and you say something that sounds like you are pissed. So you have to do the same thing for your character to make this utterance work.
Most of what's suggested sounds like it should be said in a He-Man cartoon. "By the power of Greyskull." Stuff like that is not going to work.
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Well, obviously, not knowing anything about the fictional world doesn't help. ;-) All we know is, it's polytheistic; we don't know, really, if it's fantastical or simply an alternate reality, etc. So it could be modern and polytheistic, or it could be something akin to Tolkien or who knows?
I rather like Bogwan's Hairy Balls, myself. And, yes...you can take that however you wish to read it, LOL!
(P.S.: I don't disagree on the Power of Greyskull thing. I also agree that gutteral and/or sharp sounds help with in-line cursing, e.g., "frakking hell." But for invocations or oaths, you need something a bit longer.)
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