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#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 3 Nbr 23 — Do you have any profanity in your work? **** you, I want an answer!

There's some profanity, but I avoid it even in modern settings. For fun, my devil-girl stops people by saying "Language!" at them; only the stupid ones test her resolve. In fantasy or futurist settings, I invent words more appropriate for the time. In one set of stories the f-word they use is "flap" or "flapping," and even in context it's not particularly offensive; it's neither insulting nor sexual. It just signals frustration On the other hand, calling a day angel (or worse a night angel who doesn't have feathers) a featherbrain, them's fighting words. Indeed, though my devil-girl calls herself a devil girl all the time, that's not a proper word for her kind and certainly not for /you/ to use for her, unless you're her riding partner—at which point she might find it endearing.

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