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Usage examples of atari.

He sold a game to Atari when he was ten, and he's working on another version of it now, so he won't worry or anything if I don't show up.

That's why he had all that consumer junk sitting around his house, those Trash80's and Atari's and TI's and Sinclair's, for chrissake.

I said an Atari is more complex than a neuron, but it's hard to really compare them.

Instead he and his father played number and word games, studied elementary Spanish as an introduction to Latin, plinked out simple programs on the Atari, and laughed and romped until Mommy came in and told her boys to calm down before the roof fell in on them.

When I got back, Scotty was gone, and Geoffrey and Emily had a different game in the Atari.

It took a few carriage returns to realize what was happening—the Atari was in memo-pad mode.

Again using the letter "ñ" with its Spanish value of a palatalized n (and not, as Tolkien often did, for ng as in king), one may ask whether a word like atarinya ("my father", LR:61) actually represents "atariñña".

The (nominative) plural "my fathers" would of course be atarinyar, so the singular and plural remain distinct.

In either case, a word like atarinya "my father" (that is, atariñña or atariñya) would then logically be accented on the i according to the normal rules.

Other attestations come from a source that is more definitely Quenya or at least "Qenya": In LR:61, Herendil addresses his father Elendil with the words atarinya tye-melánë, "my father, I love thee", and Elendil answers, a yonya inyë tye-méla, "and I too, my son, I love thee".

The student may remember that the ending for "my", -nya, seems to prefer -i as its connecting vowel where one is required (as in atarinya "my father", LR:61).

Maybe not, for in the Etymologies, the plural form of atar is simply atari (entry ATA-).

At about this time, the first software piracy boards began to open up, trading cracked games for the Atari 800 and the Commodore C64.

The hottest software commodities of the early 1980s were COMPUTER GAMES--the Atari seemed destined to enter every teenage home in America.