Amateurland

See also: amateurland

English

Noun

Amateurland (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of amateurland.
    • 2001 October 24, Martin Christensen, “Dont[sic] hesitate on this one 9641”, in alt.fan.elite‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 6 December 2025:
      Professionals don't have more respect for industry standards, believe me. But what's the problem, really? It requires so little to code by the standards, certainly no more than breaking them, and the result is many times more useful. On one hand there's no way of enforcing adherence to established standards, and certainly not in Amateurland.
    • 2003 July 10, kf6tpt@thin.doobie.com, “CW problems with arabs[sic] and ex-USSR”, in rec.radio.amateur.policy‎[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 6 December 2025:
      Michael Powell is rather busy these days, what with all the brouhaha surrounding ClearChannel and the media consolidation. If we think that he, or anyone all that high on the food chain at the FCC gives a rat's patootie about what's going on in Amateurland, we're fooling ourselves.
    • 2005 June 19, John Higdon, “John Conyers hearing on the Downing Street Memo to be broadcast on KPFA”, in ba.broadcast‎[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 6 December 2025:
      But posting in the political groups takes skill and knowledge, something conspicuously absent in the political discussions here. Politically, this is Amateurland; such participants here would be eaten alive in adult discussion groups. This is a much more comfortable sandbox.
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