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World Record:
The lamest letter
by Nexus 6
This article was written a long time
ago, but for various personal reasons
it wasn't sent to SH till now.
Anyway, it's worth a read, as since
then no one has broken this record.
The idea of presenting this letter
came to my mind while I was reading
the article of the same topic by Bob
in Stolen Data #10. But I guess his
letter is an intellectual letter of a
cool guy. By the way, this letter was
sent to me during my glorious work as
a demo-rubric editor at a Hungarian
mag called Amiga Magazin. So, here is
a letter, without any censorship, word
to word translation:
Dear AM editors!
Since I am a beginner Amiga user, I
have bought only isuue 7 and 8 of your
paper; the ones which are available.
The demo rubric in both issues pumped
my bloodpressure heavily. Believe me,
a lot of people dislike computers
because of article/book writers like
Nexus 6. If someone doesn't know the
Hungarian language, he should avoid
writing educational articles/books. I
have complaints about these
forthcoming words of the rubric in the
7th and the 8th issue. I don't know
their meaning, and the explanatory
dictionary shows something else than I
would imagine of their meaning.
Here we go:
Vectorgraphics (!! - Nexus 6), stuff,
swapping, Qformat, design, division,
trackloader, scrollword (?? - N6),
titlelogo, filled vectorobject,
digitized HAM, sinusscroll + picture,
with vectorball objects, filled
vector, objecttransformations, Silents
logo (Uuurghhh! - N6), scrolling
credits, gigacool, greetings, gigantic
idea, copperlist, raytracing
animation, fractal landscape,
Celebrandil's object.
(I have used the English words for
these things - N6)
So this would be the list of the
words. Perhaps the article's writer
is meditating about the highness of
the level of his knowledge right now,
and laughs on my low level of mental
abilities. Instead he should know
that the paper is not for a particular
reader group, but for an always
growing number of readers. A beginner
reading an article like this would
surely throw the paper away, and won't
subscribe for it. In my opinion, we
are living in a country with an active
living language, and we should
consider the possibilites of our own
language first when writing articles.
We should avoid technical words,
because it only scares people, and
questions the technical knowledge of
the article writer (What?! - N6). He
uses these words to pretend that he is
smarter, and by this he hides the lack
of his knowledge. I hope you won't
find this letter as a personal attack.
I just got fed up with all these
mystificating articles and books.
When I say mystificating, I understand
misleading the point on purpose.
The end.
Nexus 6: I wouldn't comment on that,
but I can tell you that now, after
months of getting the letter I still
laughed a lot typing it in...
@IPtechC