Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Slip of the Finger

Quotation marks always come in pairs, one to introduce the quote, one to announce the end. So it should come as no surprise, then, that I thought the article title was simply "Warning" at first glance:

The four page article "Warning" Far Cry 2 is still a broken game" details the chronology of the game's issues from the first reports of crashes to the promised patches in the Far Cry 2 forums.

In actuality, the second quotation mark should be a colon, a key which rests immediately next to the quotes on a keyboard. A simple typo, to be sure, and yet it does result in changing the meaning of the sentence, at least partially.

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