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Jason · 06-23-2011, 03:08 PM

Personally, I wouldn't make an issue of it in my game. The same word can mean different things in different contexts, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone at all who takes "motherf*ing door" that literally (though I'd agree that adopting such a flagrantly figurative style of speech may take some training for a Seraph). Along those lines, I wouldn't ding it as a lie if a Seraph used a resonance on someone who said, "He hit me in the nuts!" It's understood that he wasn't carrying a pack of Planters; the Seraph is looking for dishonesty and mistakes, not painful adherence to literalism (even if that comes naturally to them).

Consider too that slang and swears translate between languages more according to deeper meaning than according to literal meaning. Whether you say "nuts" in English or "huevos" (eggs) in Spanish, in the angelic tongue, it all registers as "testicles (spoken in a vulgar tone)."

06-23-2011, 03:08 PM	#13
Jason Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Boston, MA	Re: Seraphim and Profanity Personally, I wouldn't make an issue of it in my game. The same word can mean different things in different contexts, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone at all who takes "motherf*ing door" that literally (though I'd agree that adopting such a flagrantly figurative style of speech may take some training for a Seraph). Along those lines, I wouldn't ding it as a lie if a Seraph used a resonance on someone who said, "He hit me in the nuts!" It's understood that he wasn't carrying a pack of Planters; the Seraph is looking for dishonesty and mistakes, not painful adherence to literalism (even if that comes naturally to them). Consider too that slang and swears translate between languages more according to deeper meaning than according to literal meaning. Whether you say "nuts" in English or "huevos" (eggs) in Spanish, in the angelic tongue, it all registers as "testicles (spoken in a vulgar tone)."