u/Al2718x

I'm a mathematician and we are frequently throwing prefixes on words to create new terms. I got confused the other day when I read "unirational" as "un-irrational" instead of "uni-rational". There are also some decisions to make with terms like "cocircuit" and "nonnegative", which are sometimes spelled with a hyphen and sometimes not (deciding whether to write "cocircuit" or "co-circuit" is what inspired this question).

1. It may be un-necessary sometimes, but it is never harmful. Despite my bizarre spelling, I bet the first sentence wasn't hard to read. It might be slightly jarring if you have never seen it before, but would probably be easy to get used to as an alternate spelling.
2. It would be easier for English readers/learners to understand the connections between words. Compare the following two sets: {apple, atypical, antics, apolitical, atoll, abiotic}, {apple, a-typical, antics, a-political, atoll, a-biotic}. It's much easier in the second set to understand the 3 words that share a common etymological idea.
3. The stakes are remarkably low. There is a very good argument that the number pi should be re-defined to be twice as large. However, attempting to correct this oversight would cause an incredible amount of confusion from people who are used to the old way. Even if you can argue that a system is objectively better, it is often challenging to change a standard that people are used to. However, spelling words with hyphens just makes them easier to read and interpret. No-body would be forced to write in any particular way. It would just be encouraged as the current standard.

The only issue I can think of is that reading books from the past would become more difficult once we are used to the new way of spelling. I just feel like: why not show the stitch mark between words? I guess another concern is that it might encourage new pronunciations for things like "no-thing", but that feels more neutral than negative.

For both this game and the orignal, "Free to play this turn" has meant "next play this turn is free".

Have a fun hologram plan? Sorry, the card was lying.

Just realized you had an infinite? Nope, lying again.

Ooo feral can play this big attack potion card twice! Not for free it can't.

This would never be considered acceptable in Slice & Dice (the only other roguelike strategy game I'd rate S tier). I like the way that the cards currently work, but I just wish that they didn't use such misleading wording.