MaruMA:Doujinshi4:Story6
Ichitaro War[edit]
Users of Ichitaro[1] from all over the country! I'm sorry.... I don't know how to properly use all of Icchan's functions. I alone must lower the standard technical base (what's that?)of all Ichitaro users. Up until now everyone has said "You'll make Ichitaro cry", but actually the one who might start crying is me. I'm thinking about giving up on trying to master '03 Taro'. I'm fine with just "Taro Who Slept For Three Years"[2]. Well, I mean, I've been using it for a year and a half, so I should be okay with being an irresponsible MASTER by now.
However, I've never been able to erase from the CENTER RING (because I'd end up erasing the entire document) and why is it that whenever I try to make the letters bold, I get a weird pop up!? Is it a sticky note? A sticky note!? (It's a presence that I moved all the way to the bottom of the page and has stayed there since) It must have been...(dattaro)[3]! As I always thought, humans are made to write by hand. Hand-writing is the best, don't you think? But the problem there is sloppy writing. Oh, well, what you gonna do? At any rate, I am the type of person who isn't even fully verse in the use of email software. I can never excuse myself with any other reason than "Oh, I wonder why. Why isn't it working.....why?!" whenever the attachments I want to send don't get sent. There's no way someone can use something that they can't understand. For me, PC-related softwares are the same as 'cats'. They're cute and I want them, but I can't understand them.
For some reason, I couldn't use my super simple version "Ichitaro Home"; I think the software was incompatible with the borrowed laptop that I have. Let's give up... Besides there's a new version coming out in February. NEW VERSION. ....What will you do, AIF[4].... Takabayashi? Will you continue this battle? Or will you surrender and turn towards more difficult programs like Word and Excel (I don't even have them in my PC at home! There're only simplified versions of Ichitaro and Sanshiro (laughs)[5])? Or rather, I don't want to even turn towards computers~ (I'm sloppy/nageyari). I mean, I can't even remember how to use IE well (javelin/yarinage[6]). What's a favorite? What's a BOOKMARK? Why even though I just updated Norton, can't it identify the virus? (cries) I want to return to the era of word processors[7]. Yeah!.... So, how did the Ichitaro War end? ..... I abandoned the fight against it, and used the text editor 'Notepad'. A- Atok[8] did a good job.... By the way, is it correct to call it a 'text editor'? Right now I'm also fighting Word Pad. Writing has become an uncomfortable task. And by the way, that 'sticky note'..... won't go away..... it's still there, right at the bottom .....■
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References[edit]
- ↑ Ichitaro a very famous word processing software.
- ↑ In English "The young man who slept for three years" http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/folk/netaro/netaro01.html
- ↑ Take your sweaters out because it's pun time! "It must have been..." is 'dattaro' in Japanese (written in hiragana), but she used the kanji for Taro.
- ↑ AIF is an audio format for apple, but I'm not sure what the pun is here since she's not talking about audio files. It has nothing to do with iphones, they didn't exist when this was published. Aifu is also a baggage claim tag in Japanese, but I just don't get this one.
- ↑ Ichitaro is like Word, Sanshiro is like Excel.
- ↑ So, she's so sloppy she even inverted the order of the syllables.
- ↑ Not softwares, but machines. These: https://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/1998/Feb/4-1-2.gif
- ↑ Atok, the company that made Ichitaro. So in other words, Atok won.
