Re: fabrication of wafer (computer chips) ... "fabrication"?

On 6/22/2026 7:20 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
> Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> 
>> I don't mind the courage and might to modify English dictionaries. 
>> But... BUT.... it should be done wisely with wisdom and vision.
> 
> English dictionaries don't prescribe how you should speak the language, 
> they document how people do speak it.
> 
> Compare that to the Académie Française, who at least *think* they tell 
> people how to speak French :-)

Originally English dictionaries were in fact
"prescriptive", guiding users to the proper
spelling and definitions of words.  Only in
more recent decades did many switch to becoming
"descriptive" and thereby giving credence to
erroneous words and definitions, such as the
non-existent "proactive" that was invented by
people who didn't remember that opposite of
"reactive" is simply "active", or any number
of non-existent verbs that were back-constructed
from nouns by the ignorant, such as "conversate"
(instead of the correct "converse").  As for
"fabrication", it basically refers to the
creation or construction of something, whether
physical (chips, buildings) or intangible
(misinformation), though in the latter it has
[also] taken the form of the noun describing
the result of the action.