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Old 04-06-2005, 08:05 AM   #9
Thomas, King of the Apartment
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I understand that it takes considerable time and effort to write detailed reviews for posted games. The people who write them (hopefully) have busy lives outside of their computers, so it follows that there are inherent constraints on the time spent fussing over a review. However, there is no acceptable reason for the reviewer not to spend an extra 5 minutes editing what they've written for grammatical and syntactical clarity.

Take this sentence fragment, for example:

"I doubt very much, that there have been more games,,,"

What is the purpose of this comma? It only slows down the reader. When the very first sentence of a passage contains such a distracting error it is very tempting to just stop reading, to prevent any further wasting of time.

Here's an awful example of syntactical ambiguity:

"You also need to watch out for enemy planes. They will attack the train while in motion."

What is in motion here, the train or the enemy planes? Given the context, the sentence could be interpreted either way. Terrible, terrible writing! :Titan:
                       
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