amateurland

alternative Amateurland

1. informalrareuncountableThe world or sphere of amateurs.

   RAMBLINGS and QUOTES and such ... […] - "Ottawa is amateurland!" "Nice to meet you." "You kids want to go to dinner later tonight?"

   2003 March 19, BallODisco, “Bumpers #204 - Tuesday 3.18.03 - Show #GH16”, in alt.fan.letterman (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Dec 2025

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   This type of music is not my groove, but I’m familiar enough with jazz to recognize its styles and various interpretations, and these guys have talent. They’re definitely above amateurland.

   1990, Option, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 142

   Oughtn't the term "unknown" be reserved for genuinely unknown performers--people plucked out of nowhere/amateurland/hinterlands with no previous credits?

   1990 December 12, Jon Conrad, “MISERY”, in alt.horror (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Dec 2025

   We don't need to designate bands by wavelength, but almost everyone calls it two metres or 'two' never 144 Megs or '144'. Old habits die very hard in amateurland.

   2003 January 7, J., “2m Bandplan”, in uk.radio.amateur (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Dec 2025

   Presuming that this is, more or less, what you were saying, -- this is, unquestionably, a complete and total piece of amateurland, jerk-off dribble.

   2004 April 15, nmstevens, “Here's How To Get Lot's^([sic]) of Stars Attached To Your Project!”, in rec.arts.movies.production (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Dec 2025

   There is absolutely no comparison between the two. Ditto for screenplays written by professional writers compared to screenplays written by amateurs. Certainly, the majority of them are nothing to write home about. Most of them are junk. But having come out of the world of amateurland -- it's a whole other planet.

   2004 June 1, nmstevens, “Newbie question... Marketing your script?”, in misc.writing.screenplays (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Dec 2025

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of amateurland.

   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.

   2005 June 19, John Higdon, “John Conyers hearing on the Downing Street Memo to be broadcast on KPFA”, in ba.broadcast (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Dec 2025

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   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.

   2001 October 24, Martin Christensen, “Dont^([sic]) hesitate on this one 9641”, in alt.fan.elite (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Dec 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.

   2003 July 10, kf6tpt@thin.doobie.com, “CW problems with arabs^([sic]) and ex-USSR”, in rec.radio.amateur.policy (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Dec 2025