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Old 18th June 2007, 02:04 AM   #36 (permalink)
Anastasia
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Re: Swearing in books

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Originally Posted by chrispenycate View Post
Don't post anything you wouldn't want a thirteen year old to see (because there are a couple)
That holds not merely for language, but for excessively graphic descriptions, too.
And, while I admit that some thirteen-year olds are foul mouthed little…, one should not assume that this is the norm (or, for that matter, ours are the norm)
My daughter is almost 13. She recently tried to justify watching Torchwood in her room on the grounds that she wouldn't see anything on it she couldn't see in the corridors of her school.

Well unless her school is over-run with man-eating, bisexual aliens, I somehow doubt it. Still, schools are pretty rough places these days. My daughter, bless her, thinks swearing is beneath her
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