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Francesco Cordella wrote:
[...]

> I think that after a writer worked so much for a game and then this game is
> played by a person who *doesnt* know Inform, well... this person could say
> "Ah, Ah... I can type 'take junk of water water junk of' and it understands
> it! Why the writer of this game let me type this incorrect sentence?".

Any player doing this isn't really playing the game you wrote, anyway.  Such a
player is playing "Confuse the Parser," which is something you'll really never
be able to win (as an author), unless you write up every possible English rule
and catch every exception while still not allowing anything incorrect (whew!).

Besides, any player who types, "get bob box the belongs which box box bob the to
bob bob belongs from table table table oak table the oak oak table," deserves
what he gets...

[...]


