Re: Re: Re: Who coined the term "3D printing"?

From: Bathsheba <b_at_bathsheba.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:59:30 -0500

On 2/16/2017 3:34 PM, Marshall Burns wrote:
>> Then also, "form" is better than "print" as the verb, but what would
>> the noun be? "3D former" is redundant and "former" already means
>> something else. It's insoluble.
>
> Not insoluble.
>
> Verb: fabricate abbreviate: fab
> Noun: fabricator abbreviate: fabber

I'm sorry -- fab sucks. Always has, always will. You may have
persuaded a few people to use it, but no one other than you has ever
liked it.

-Bathsheba
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Received on Thu Feb 16 2017 - 22:59:37 EET

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