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Are special characters al!*?ed

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I confess I don't understand Ninnet's answer. All characters are important in a book, though some are more important than others.

If Ninnet means Afrikaan words use special characters, like dots over the e, I would need to know, yes.

The best way I can explain more clearly is that in the UK "bloody" is used, and wouldn't be considered OTT by a publisher. A writer who included an American character saying "bloody" just wouldn't ring true... it isn't a word they use... or so I've been told, and I haven't seen it in American fiction, whereas I have seen "goddam", which I've never heard an English person use.

The question isn't as petty as it may sound. Getting a book even read by somebody like me, acting for an agent, never mind published, is tough, and something like this could mean the difference between being published or a year or more's work being rejected.

If you can help, with American swear words... MILD... in common use, but right now, especially South African, I would be very grateful.

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