semantic question

[winterbadger]

Imagine a chessboard with one pawn on it. I hand you a second pawn and ask you to place it two spaces away from the first. You do that.
[Poll #491290]

Comments

[nosebeepbear.livejournal.com]

Really? I've never seen a game define it that way.

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

and you're a gamer. I'm neither a gamer or an English major, and just can't see how anyone can say TWO.

[kmusser]

Yeah, I think it's just sloppy editing but I remember seeing "# of spaces away" and "# of spaces between" being used interchangeably fairly often. I can't think of a specific example though, I don't play games that refer to spaces all that often anymore.