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13167: RE: [MUD-Dev] Declaration of the Rights of Avatars

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From: "Travis S. Casey" <efindel@io.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:00:24 -0500 (CDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Raph Koster wrote:
> > From: mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu [mailto:mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
> > Travis Casey

> > Suggestion:  Rewrite the whole thing in modern English.  In many cases
> > you're using sentence structures, phrasings, and word choices that,
> > while they were current in the late 1700's, no longer mean quite what
> > they did then.
> 
> Your wish is my command. :) I liked the conceit though.
> 
> So, this is the version that I'd call "advice to any mud admin who wants to
> keep his mud running and his players happy."

[snip]

Nice.  I didn't mean that you should do it in colloquial English, though
-- just thought you should get rid of some of the more archaic parts.  :-)

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