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icon Linguistic headaches (+1)  
* Fix all spellings of "Fire trap" to "Firetrap" (because Firetrap is an actual dictinary word)
* Cardinal directions should all start with lowercase (grammatical rules say so)
* Diagonal cardinal directions should not use hyphen (as per american spelling rules)

Please list all other linguistic woes you can think of, I'll wait a few days before fixing these things (plus those changes will only make it in once 5.2 is released)

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10-05-2020 at 01:02 PM
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Cardinal directions are only capitalized in specific contexts. When it's just a direction (pointing east, move north), it's lowercase. When it's a region (like "the South" or "the Northeast") then it's capitalized.

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10-05-2020 at 02:39 PM
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* Replace all instances of "dictinary" in skell's posts with "dictionary" (because dictionary is an actual dictionary word).

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10-05-2020 at 06:19 PM
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