RE: Perceptually true, Technically wrong

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -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".  

There was nothing in the initial instruction that said it was in a computer:

>what I mean.  A few years ago I worked with a technical
>writer who got in an argument with her engineer over 
>what to call a part in a hardware manual. She wanted to
>call this part a "fan,"  but he insisted that it be called
>an "Air Moving Device," and use the acronym AMD....

John Posada
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