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I smiled when I read the word "graphician" in the guidebook. That word doesn't really exist, or rather, it didn't exist until my scene group friend going by the handle OMG https://csdb.dk/scener/?id=2772 at the time invented the word: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=graphician

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I remember the word from '90s demoscene. I always assumed it's a clunky direct translation from "grafiker", which means "graphics artist" in both Swedish and German.

Congratulations to your friend for this efficient space-efficient word coinage ;)

Indeed: never heard that word when I was coding Amstrad CPC demos in the early 90s.

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