Identify
Read
Read verb - To go over and mentally take in the content of.
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Both words in one sentence
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About all languages that Joe Average can identify from their look (but not read - if you can actually read them, it's pure nonsense) are played through.
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Trailer Spoof: The trailer for The Movie went so far to identify itself as Spider-Man 2 in the text crawl while the narrator read the correct name.
- Read magic is one of the most basic spells available to any caster, and can be used to identify the spells contained in scrolls.
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