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From: ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher E. Forman)
Subject: Re: Gumbshoe and other typos
Date: 05 Apr 1996 19:07:14 +0000
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Dsurfr (dsurfr@aol.com) wrote:
: 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.

Let's compare typos in I-F to graphic glitches in point-n-click games.  Sure,
they're irritating, they detract a bit, but they're no reason to knock the
entire game unless they're all over the place or truly horrendous, such as
the ones in, say, "Space Aliens Laughed at My Cardigan."  Just because an
author hit a wrong key and didn't catch it is no reason to judge the entire
game as worthless.

BTW, isn't "ex-proofreader" hyphenated?  B-)

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