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Dr. Giblet's son Trevor complies, gently settling the refractor on the bridge of your nose. As he pushes inward on the two halves of the instrument, the lenses align and you find yourself staring through the device at a blurry eye chart..
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Low-impact typos #96

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. search for the text left of the arrow in the source
2. note the grammatical/spelling quibble
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Lots of small grammar stuff here that is not worth bothering about when you are 
being creative.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Please provide any additional information below.

Hope this isn't too much at once. I ran the code through a perl script then MS 
Word's spell checker as a minor project. I can break this up into, say, 10-15 
typos per issue.

?s mean it may be a question of style. ?? is very dubious but MS Word pointed 
it out.
Most of the time it is a one-off but I mention global (case sensitive) 
search/replace when necessary.

Attached file has the goods.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by blurglec...@gmail.com on 23 Feb 2012 at 11:38

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
These are great finds - thanks so much for going through the code like that. In 
the past, we have had a copy reader look through the text, but we needed to 
move quickly to get in under the beta testing deadline, so we didn't have that 
process for this game. 

No need to break these into separate issues, I'll just work my way through this 
list.

Thanks - Jack

Original comment by dhakajack on 25 Feb 2012 at 4:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Fixed all issues, except for a few that were deliberate -- e.g., the registered 
trademark symbol is only used in direct speech, not narrative text. A few 
spelling variations were intentional. 

As for spelling out quotations and apostrophes, in early projects I'd gotten 
into trouble using ['], and would rather be explicit. The two words are part of 
finger-memory now, so I dont really have to think about typing them.

Thanks again for flagging all of these!

Original comment by dhakajack on 28 Feb 2012 at 11:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This issue was closed by revision 3ad3f383a87d.

Original comment by dhakajack on 29 Feb 2012 at 12:33