Yeah, I think SHIT is just strong because we have a wide variety of different ways to say that word? In Swedish, do you have many other degrees of way to say "skit" that are "less offensive"? Like as you're aware we say crap, or just silly little kid words like doodoo or what have you.
Kuso is like that, it means "shit" but it isn't as offensive, again, maybe it's because they don't have as many words as we do with varying degrees of acceptability? No idea hahah.
As for worrying about ratings because most Americans use the internet I wouldn't worry TOO much about it. You can get away with more on the internet than media, of course, I've ULed short fanfics to FF.N rated PG with like 3 uses of "shit" in them (thank you Sanji) and had no problems, I just put warning of swearing in the disclaimer and at least made SURE it wasn't G, because, as the other person said, that wouldn't have any swears except you could get away with like "GOD" or "CRAP" I should think.
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Date: 2008-06-13 05:45 pm (UTC)Kuso is like that, it means "shit" but it isn't as offensive, again, maybe it's because they don't have as many words as we do with varying degrees of acceptability? No idea hahah.
As for worrying about ratings because most Americans use the internet I wouldn't worry TOO much about it. You can get away with more on the internet than media, of course, I've ULed short fanfics to FF.N rated PG with like 3 uses of "shit" in them (thank you Sanji) and had no problems, I just put warning of swearing in the disclaimer and at least made SURE it wasn't G, because, as the other person said, that wouldn't have any swears except you could get away with like "GOD" or "CRAP" I should think.