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Originally Posted by Joel007  Consider your target audience... |
I thought it deserved repeating.
Firefly used some pretty rough Chinese cusses. Father Ted got away with 'feck' because in the Irish language it's a legit word.
The Lone Ranger was calling his native American pal an idiot every time he called him Tonto. And unless my sources are wrong, Kimosabe was actually "que no sabe" which means "who knows nothing". They were a 19th century double-act, really!
It might be an idea, depending on your setting, to look for inspiration in other languages you characters might be familiar with.