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[lisefrac]

Warning: I'm going to write about spelling and grammar, which virtually guarantees that I'm going to mangle some word or another. Aside from the title, naturally, which is purposefully mangled.On my work computer, IT has installed Symantec Endpoint Protection as antivirus software. Fair enough; I don't want to think too much about this stuff when I

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[qnmark]

I try to get my grammar right when writing LARP materials, but mistakes always slip by. Sometimes they're my own; sometimes they're by less careful coauthors but then I don't notice them when I copyedit.

The highlight is that in the Vericon blurb for Seek/Find, we wrote, "As one of the world's top spies, there is no person that can elude you, no piece of data you cannot access, no item that you cannot find. Unless, of course, it’s your car keys, or that souvenir pen you like so much, or your wedding ring." Noam Elkies, who's HRSFA's faculty advisor, replied to the entire list noting the dangling modifier. I will never live down the shame :(.

[spiralngphoenix]

As someone who currently works in online fraud prevention (meaning we're paid to be hyper-paranoid), the spelling error and spacing SCREAMS "RED FLAG!" to me. It certainly doesn't say "Trust us with your computer security" to me, either.