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From: jtilton@vt.edu (Jay Tilton)
Subject: Re: Gumbshoe and other typos
Date: 05 Apr 1996 00:32:16 +0000
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dsurfr@aol.com (Dsurfr) writes:

>I steadfastly refuse to play a game with typos. I guess that is a little
>snobby of me. Seriously, in some games, that could be a clue. I'm an ex
>proofreader and it is just too irritating to have misspellings in a game
>that is so dependent on words. Don't you think? Maybe it's just me, myself
>and my petty idiosyncrasies.

I can pretty much overlook typos when embedded in the descriptive text,
though I do notice them.  Misspelling something you have to refer to
is quite different.  The brazier in Spiritwrak is the worst offender.
That one's so infuriating, I'm either going to give up on it until
it's fixed, or create a keyboard macro that types "oops braizer" for me.
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