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
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