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Subject: Technical jargon needed
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Date: Sat, 21-Nov-87 18:01:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 21 18:01:28 1987
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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