RE: Perceptually true, Technically wrong

["Anita Legsdin" <anita -dot- legsdin -at- watchmark -dot- com>]

A quick Google search provided the following:

"These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call
a spade a spade"
                --Plutarch. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kat Nagel, MasterWork Consulting
> [SMTP:mlists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com]
> Sent:	Monday, March 10, 2003 1:42 PM
> To:	TECHWR-L
> Subject:	RE: Perceptually true, Technically wrong
> 
> 
> At 2:57 PM -0600 3/10/03, Watson Laughton wrote:
> >...what kind of gizmo inside a machine qualifies as an Air Moving 
> >Device (AMD), but not as a fan (technically speaking, of course).
> 
> I once had a similar discussion with an engineer who wanted to call 
> the fan a Heat Distribution Agent.  He won that round, because he 
> convinced his manager that using a 'generic name for the ultimate 
> function' would require less re-writing when they upgraded the 
> equipment with future technological improvements.
> 
> 

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