RE: Perceptually true, Technically wrong

[Watson Laughton <WLaughton -at- orphan -dot- com>]

>A fan is a specific design...blades around an axle spun by a motor.
>An Air Moving Device can be different designs...a bellows, a wheel, a
number of different designs.

Yes, I know that, but I've never seen a bellows inside a computer.  Unless
the engineer was a blacksmith and was describing how to get the coals red
hot, it seems likely that what they were discussing was in fact (what I, at
least) would call a "fan".  

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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