Re: The term "fabber"

From: Steve Farentinos (steve@pmli.com)
Date: Wed Sep 08 1999 - 17:21:20 EEST


Marshall and Others,

The words Fab and Fabber sound very strange to me as well, although they make
perfect sense. Maybe because Fab sounds like Flab (an ugly word indeed :)

The thesuarus doesn't seem to help much. But we don't necessarily have to use
an english word, do we?

Marshall Burns wrote:

> Excerpts from a private e-mail received:
>
> >I appreciate your efforts to promote the use of proper
> >nomenclature within the rapid prototyping community.
> >I share your position that new terms need to be created
> >...
> >However, I find the term "fabber" a very strange word. I
> >...
> >Therefore I believe we should continue to seek new words
> >to better describe this new class of machines and processes.
>
> I agree. I am not committed to the term "fabber" and would give it up
> for something better, less strange sounding. I don't want to use "3-D
> printer" because I think this stuff deserves distinct treatment from
> printers and because it will create confusion when you want to leave off the
> "3-D" prefix. There was a movement sometime back to call these machines
> "holoformers," but I submit that that is no less strange than "fabbers."
> Sometimes a word just sounds strange until people become accustomed to using
> it. In the meantime, I'm open to alternative suggestions.
>
> By the way, the word does begin to feel less strange when you get
> comfortable with using the verb, "to fab," as in, "Let's fab a model of that
> new design." From "fab" one gets easily to "fabbing" and then "fabber."
>
> Best regards,
> Marshall Burns
>
> Marshall@Ennex.com
> Ennex Corporation, Los Angeles, USA, (310) 824-8700
> www.Ennex.com
>
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