CT Lottery to Offer PC Game

nstrom writes "The Connecticut State Lottery is giving out a PC game (for Windows, presumably) with their new scratch-off lottery tickets which offer a chance of winning $25,000 by playing. This news article from the Hartford Courant mentions that the game might be targeted at children, but there's no mention of any problems involving software cracking, which is what I immediately thought of. I'm sure there are some bored crackers out there who'd tackle this for a chance at some cash. What do you think?"

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Re:Lottery: def

[feed_me_cereal]

"Occasionally" and "mistakenly" are both adverbs. Stylistic suggestion: "...people occasionally using 'its' instead of 'it's' by mistake...."

I would prefer "on occasion". Please collect your gold star at the teacher's desk.

You missed the relevant error: "its" and "it's" should be transposed.

Also, you may want to insert commas when beginning a sentence with an adverb such as "also" or "actually."

Actually, that wasn't me.

I'm surprised you didn't note that I shouldn't begin sentences with prepositions, or my improper use of the word "even".

What, I don't get a "70% Funny" like the original poster?

No, because your post isn't funny. It's just a bunch of nitpicking in what I can only assume is an attempt at irony. The gist of my post is that nitpicking over grammar is pedantic. You nitpicked my grammar. That's not funny, it's missing the point. It would have been ironic if I had been stating that grammar was important while making those mistakes.

We can mock the poor but we can't make light of someone who has not mastered his native language?

Oh shit, I failed the authoritative "Permission-Denied English Mastery Test". Now how will I get into grad-school?

For discussion: have you ever visited a casino (especially towards the first of the month)?

nope.

How do we solve the problem of getting the elderly off of Social Security?

I'll let you know after I master my native language. I'm not sure I have the grammar to attempt such a feat.