Bob-B@cup.portal.com (11/22/87)
Hello. I'm a fiction writer and I wonder if I can impose on someone for just a bit of technical jargon to better authenticate a character in a story I'm currently writing. The character is an eccentric inventor and has just been proposed an idea from someone. The inventor concludes the idea will require the design of a micro chip and while in the meeting begins to walk around in circles, talking to himself about how this chip would have to work, conceptually. (The 'idea' is for a hand held-type computer game with unusual and strange audio sounds.) So what I need is a half-paragraph of 'way out there' high tech jargon that he is thinking out loud until the others in the room are so lost by what he's saying, they just say, "Great, sounds great. Go for it," just to cut him off. The inventor will come back into the story latter on, triumphant, and begin to explain something he was able to accomplish that only a genius could have figured out (solved a stumbling block, etc.) and again he's cut off by the businessmen in the group, "Great, but does it work?" I would like the dialog to be authentic and I don't want to insult anyone who would actually 'know' what this guy's talking about, but the jargon should be so high tech, no one except just such a person could even begin to understand what the heck he's saying. :-) If anyone could help with those two half-paragraphs, I would be much obliged. Thank you. Bob
tlh@mordred.cs.purdue.edu (Thomas L. Hausmann) (11/23/87)
> ... micro chip
Start by using integrated circuit.peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (11/30/87)
> > ... micro chip > Start by using integrated circuit. Start by using an off-the-shelf digital synth chip. Buth then there goes the story... -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.