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Re:What is ZIL anyway? by blacksmith_tb on Friday April 19, 2019 @12:26PM (#19700811)
Seems like smart speakers are a good fit, my eight year old spent a little while playing with an IF Alexa skill not long ago. Of course, backtracking leads to a lot of agonizing repetition, which isn't really different than seeing it in text, but at least there you can skim over descriptions you've already seen.
Re:What is ZIL anyway? by egypturnash on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:54PM (#19701522)
This is why "verbose/brief/superbrief" became a thing in IF.

Verbose: Always show the full description of a room when you enter it.

Brief: Show a short description when you re-enter a room.

Superbrief: Always show the short description.

(Regardless of which you chose, you could always 'look' to get a full description.)