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When English Language is Just Not Enough

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Warning: hilariously odd bad language ahead.  Poor Catalina.

Bug served as Rogan’s surveillance specialist. Magically altered, he processed visual information at an astonishing rate. If anybody could find [Redacted], Bug could. He was also fanatically loyal to Rogan.

The moment we involved Bug, Rogan would know every detail of what we asked and why. Then Nevada would know, and, considering the usual colorful way Bug made his reports, there was a strong possibility that she would freak out. Bug found the vast array of curses available to an average English speaker completely inadequate and used every opportunity to add his own, which often amounted to a random collection of expletives that left you befuddled. I could just imagine the way that report would go.

“Hey, so you’ll never believe this dick fart thing: they want me to find [Redacted]. Isn’t that just pork balls? The gnome molester apparently stabbed somebody. Whore dimwit shit brain dungarees!”

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  1. Love Bug! Anyone can use regular swear words it takes some creative thinking to come up with Bug’s version 😁

  2. Wow, I absolutely understand keeping the description of Unicorn Lane fresh is a challenge, how much more of a challenge will it be to keep Bug’s pithy language fresh? I figure that anyone who come up with gnome molester is well up to the task 🙂

  4. Thank you, Ilona Andrews for the snippet. I would have worried about Bug as he tends to be a unique swearer. Clean too. My puppy has learned the f word and b word from my illegally minded neighbors. Sigh. At least with Bug he learns creativity.

    Right now he is mulling over the edge book 1 chapter 1. He was so pathetic about missing Friday night innkeeper. He is a puppy so it was the human reading to me on Friday night’s bonding he really missed. But he knows Ilona Andrews means a treat.

  6. The Catalina series, are you self-publishing it or are you under contract? I thrilled to see that you’re continuing with the Hidden Legacy world. There’s just Sooooo much potential.
    Much love. Keep writing, and take as much time as it takes to make it as unbelievably amazing as you always do.