"'Cause I'm wondering how plain speak treats words written incorrectly."

"It's the word 'mistake' but it looks like you have really bad handwriting or something."

"Okay now that's weird." She tries writing "love" and "lvoe" and "loev."

"Same thing."

And "lov"?

"That one's harder to read but with context I can."

"Without having to actually work out what it looks like?"

"What do you mean?"

"Like, do you have to actually look at how the word ought to be pronounced to work it out from context, or does it work from within plain speak?"

"The latter. You wrote 'love' sloppily three times, this is another of those."

"Okay, hmm... How about this?"

She writes "aberra."

"What about it?"

"Does that look like it's obviously the start of some word? I can think of like two it could be, so I'm hypothesising that plain speak might just have too many words that could theoretically start a certain way but if I pick something unambiguous enough..."

"Aberrant?" she guesses eventually.

She grins. "Yep! This is interesting. I wonder if orders can be enforced with misspelled words?"

"I wouldn't risk it if you had an alternative, but probably."

"May I test it?"

"You may try misspelled-ordering me to clap my hands."

She writes "calp your hnads."

Promise... claps, but with noticeable delay.

"That was weird."

"Weird how?"

"It felt like it was almost ambiguous enough to ignore; I had a little time to think about it; eventually it resolved in favor of me knowing what you wrote."

"...huh. Can I try with something more ambiguous slash complex?"

"Like what?"

"Like... I dunno, 'observe that wall for twenty-three seconds and then do a backflip in the air,' that's lots of words."