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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1172624" data-attributes="member: 6929">Time to shoot down Romance..."I know it in my heart to be true.""Don't follow your head, but your heart.""There is only love in my heart."That sort of thing.Trouble is, historically you should replace 'heart' with 'brain'. Because up until a couple hundred years ago, we thought that thought took place in the heart, so of course we described things thusly. You think emotion and intellect are opposites? They aren't, you're just choking on out-of-date poetry.I don't have any particularly good original phrases to share, except for a couple of principles:- I see no problem with talking in modern slang in-game. If we're talking High Ancient Faerunic or whatever, well, we don't know that language - so we default to the language we're most fluent in, which happens to be modern English. The computer game series Gothic does this - lower-class people will swear at you, upper-class people will behave in a more refined fashion. It's very realistic IMHO.- Religion in swearing is to be encouraged. The surprisingly recent "By Jove!" is an alternate name of Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Zeus. "Zounds" from "God's Wounds" and other such things were all quite a bit more serious back in the day. I've got such epithets scattered throughout my scifi...(But why would Victorian gentlemen swear by a pagan deity? I've often wondered this...)</blockquote>