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[Glaurung]

Well, never mind. I'm sure your entirely human fingers are hitting all the right keys, and your eyes, just the two of them, are feeding back the results.

[Tusky]

That's right.

Except for when My Palpebrae are conducting a blink, of course! 

[Glaurung]

Oh good. That's very, um, reassuring.

[Tusky]

I am glad. So glad I shall win once more

[Glaurung]

Ah, once more a splendid example of the ambiguity permitted by the English language. "So glad I shall win once more" - this could be either of:
- "I am glad (from some other cause) therefore I shall go on to win again"
- "I am glad because I have won again"
Fascinating how cause and effect are swapped between these meanings.

And taking the second of these: I have won again, and therefore I am glad!

[Tusky]

Nice analysis.

Here's a less ambiguous statement, then:

I win.

[Glaurung]

Indeed - so simple, yet so effective.

[Tusky]

win

[Glaurung]

Ah, the triumph of the true artist, reducing the text to its starkest, most elegant form!

[Tusky]

Oh you! *blush*

[Glaurung]

Alas, all I can offer in response is the repetitive and purely derivative: win!

[Tusky]

win * 2!

[Glaurung]

Indeed, multiple wins - though only successive, not simultaneous.

[Tusky]

win *4

[Glaurung]

Oh no, they're multiplying now! Quick, help!