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Q&A When does use of offensive language in a book go from a character trait or to convey emotion to bad use of English skills

I decided to included some offensive language in one of my novels as many novels do. I was wondering however at what point does it become poor dialogue or just plain bad English. Obviously I'm not ...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by EJ785‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:04:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/30466
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar EJ785‭ · 2019-12-08T07:04:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
I decided to included some offensive language in one of my novels as many novels do. I was wondering however at what point does it become poor dialogue or just plain bad English. Obviously I'm not using every second word as a cuss word but it is recurring.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-09-28T01:47:39Z (about 7 years ago)
Original score: 10