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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: "go east blarg"
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 01:38:16 GMT
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In article <9dpiq9$fv$2@news.lth.se>, Magnus Olsson <mol@df.lth.se> wrote:
>Well, maybe they are newbies and haven't got used to the conventions,
>so they naturally type "go east" instead of "e" - and then they don't
>know that most parsers don't accept adverbs, so they try to "go east
>quietly"?

A friend of mine who has played Photopia and maybe one or two
other games tried my SpeedIF last night, and had the following
exchange

   > GO DOWN STAIRS
   I only understood you as wanting to go the floor.

which left her utterly confused.

SeanB
