RE: Velcro or "hook and loop"

[MList -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]

Well, there are people working on magnetic and electro-static 
"touch fasteners", as well as re-usable adhesive fasteners (akin 
to the 3M Post-It adhesive, except a little stronger... This 
suggests that the hook-and-loop qualifier is still needed.
One's the noun-phrase "touch fastener"; the other is an 
adjective phrase "hook-and-loop" needed to precisely qualify 
the generic noun... with the even more specific qualifier 
Velcro being what VELCRO corp would LIKE to see you using 
in front of all the other verbiage.

(Except, it can't really be "VERBiage" without any verbs, 
 can it??)

/kevin (grasping, but not hooking... or looping)

Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net] came up with:
> 
> And the winner is ...
> 
> touch fastener (per the Velcro Web site).
> 
> I think that's a lot more intuitive than hook and loop, the 
> other choice they offer.

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