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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: What makes IF so popular...?
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Adam Cadre <grignr@cascadia.drizzle.com> wrote:
>> I think we should drop the whole IF snobbery and call it Text
>> Adventures once again.
>
>So what would you propose we call fiction that is interactive but is not
>an adventure?

A coined term need not denote piecewise; that's rather
the point of coinage.

To reverse your challenge, if somebody wrote "IF" about
a non-fictional event, people who prefer the term IF
would still call it "IF", not "INF".

SeanB
