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November 19, 2004

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Dana

What I've actually found to be most interesting about gamer-speak is not really in the vocabulary used, but in the way tense tends to be used in role-playing games, particularly the face-to-face, table top kind. It's one of the few places you'll find simple present tense being used for non-stative verbs on a regular basis. People in my gaming group only roled their eyes at me a little bit when I pointed that out. We're all geeks, after all, I was just the only linguistic geek there.

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