RE: Perceptually true, Technically wrong

["Schermerhorn, Robert" <roberts -at- chipdata -dot- com>]

I recently bought a fan at a hardware store. The box did not call it a
fan -- it was an industrial high-velocity air circulator. I probably
wouldn't have paid as much for a fan ;-)

Robert

--

Inasmuch as the only plausible defense of the AMD term so far has been
that
someone may want to order a replacement part, it seems prudent not to
apply
wording that might bog the would-be customer down in explaining that
"they"
<ahem> don't want a bellows, they don't want a gnome with puffed cheeks,
they don't want the Almighty sweeping desert winds across the
sun-scorched
earth, they don't want just any old Air Moving Device, THEY WANT A FAN.
And
if what they are seeking to replace is in fact a mechanical device
consisting of blades around an axle spun by a motor, why on earth not
cal it
a fan?



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