Re: fabrication ... American english vs English english

On 6/23/2026 1:51 AM, John wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:43:10 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
>>
>> Both of you are NOT answering my question about "chip" and "thin slab"!!
> 
>   Yes, "chip" means "a thin slab cut from something"....
> 
>   What the English often use the word "chip" for is "fried potato chip"
> or "fried chip from a potato".....
> 
>   In England, in general conversation, much of the time "chips" means a
> small meal made up of deep-fried potato wedges, salt and vinegar. It
> is roughly 1/3rd part of each ingredient.
> 
>   The comedy sketch making fun of "spam" as an ingredient was just
> substituting "spam" for chips. If you replace "spam" with "chips" then
> it becomes simply a normal café menu and all alleged humour vanishes.


It's obvious nobody (notbaly the nobles and the rich) gave a dime about 
computer chip making. That's why they linked computer chip(wafer) making 
with "fabrication" in the dictionaries, to joke about it? They only 
cared about shapes and colors, like fashion. :)


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