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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 3605819" data-attributes="member: 63">The characters in most fiction I write have American sensibilities, and use American language. Side characters from other cultures might be more British, or more French, or Arabic or Vietnamese or whatever. Generally I prefer to focus on unexceptional people who do exceptional things as demanded by the circumstances they find themselves in. As normal people, they sometimes swear, and when they do, because I think about things the way an American does, my baseline is to have them swear like an American would.Even though the setting is fantastical, the people in it have the same sorts of personalities and mannerisms that real world people do. I view it as a stylistic choice, an attempt to emphasize that these folks aren't special -- they go through the same sort of difficult s*** we all do, just their world is a little more exciting to read about.I dunno. Maybe I oughta write modern pulp adventure instead of fantasy pulp adventure, if the audience will have a problem with me wanting to portray characters as being "just like you and me, but with a sword."</blockquote>