Suggesting specific synonym to a player: potential pitfalls?

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For Why Pout, I have a noun called cell phone chatter. But I want the player to focus on how it is from cell phones and not chatter.

every turn when noun is cell phone chatter:
    if the player's command includes "chatter", say "But it's the cell phones that make the chatter particularly annoying. Focus on the cell phones.";

This code looks good, but I’m wondering about special cases I might be missing.

I’ve tried special cases like X CHATTER/parser error or even X CHATTER/Z (make sure noun is not carries over) but I sense there is something I’m missing & want to be sure of it before implementing this.

Thanks!

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This is another case where the Subcommands extension (mentioned in this thread) may be helpful.

In I6 you could write parse_name logic to set a flag when a particular word was encountered. This didn’t make it into I7 (not in a user-visible way) and it’s one of the things I miss most.

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