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This is an interesting article that I confess I could not finish. I love Monkey Island and some of the details here are interesting, but the writing is so poor that I eventually decided to stop reading.

Clearly this is written by someone for whom English is not their primary language, and their English is better than my (probably Mandarin) by far. But this piece could benefit from some heavy copy-editing for readability.

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It gets better (i.e. readable) when you get to the bit written by Ron Gilbert at the bottom, but there are still some really weird, seemingly random, word insertions, and the whole thing needs a proper edit - shame.

I hope that is the case, but I've seen far too many of these articles written by native english speakers. I've graded papers by university students (year three!) that were far worse than this article.

I think it's machine translated. I can't think of another reason for writing "The adventure begins in Bar Scumm", when the bar in the game is called the Scumm Bar.

The part written by Gilbert was actually taken directly from his blog and can be found at http://grumpygamer.com/if_i_made_another_monkeyisland

EDIT: Except they randomly capitalized words, removed random parts of sentences to make them incomprehensible, and inserted the word "blackberries" in the middle of a sentence. The more I look at this article, the weirder it gets.

I think the full screen pop up (on mobile at least) asking for 3 USD a month to support "high quality independent journalism" rubs the salt in the wound a bit. I too had to stop reading it.

We are fixing, it's a translation. Thanks so much for your help!

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