Timeline for What should be done with the word "Romex®"?
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| Jul 23, 2015 at 21:25 | comment | added | Mazura | For the reasons outlined in @bib's excellent answer, or otherwise? | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 20:20 | comment | added | Jaydles StaffMod | to reinforce @Tester101's point, I've never seen such a polite, zero-threat, respectful request from a lawyer. I'm not worried about legal liability; I actually did something because they made me want to help. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:51 | comment | added | Mazura | @Tester101 Your commitment to nomenclature is commendable. Your answer's better: just stop calling it Romex®. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:43 | comment | added | Tester101 Mod | In fact I also tend to use "ungrounded", and "grounded", instead of "hot" and "neutral". Though I do tend to pander to noobs, by putting "hot" and "neutral" in parentheses. If I do use "neutral" or "hot", I tend to put them in quotes. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:41 | comment | added | Tester101 Mod | I don't think I've ever called it "Romex", but I could be wrong about that. I tend to call it nonmetallic sheathed cable, or NM cable. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:34 | comment | added | Mazura | @Tester101 Right but before all this, did you prefer calling Romex, NM-B? For noobs I mean, not for conversations between you and sir Petey. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:29 | comment | added | Tester101 Mod | I tend to agree with you there. But at the same time, I'm in favor of using the correct terminology no matter what the lawyers say. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:25 | comment | added | Mazura | Using the correct terminology to pander to lawyers, ain't my thing ;P | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:25 | comment | added | Tester101 Mod | We were Joe Shmoe once. It was only through education, that we advanced beyond that level. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:18 | comment | added | Mazura | @Tester101 Copyrights irk me to no end, I thought it was quite cheeky, please feel free to edit out anything that could be construed as offensive. I agree, we (you and me) should be calling things by their real names, but what about Joe Smoe. "They said I shouldn't use romex, and instead use NM-B." {Insert blank look from 14yo HD employee here}. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:11 | comment | added | Tester101 Mod | Also... In my opinion, we should be using the proper names for things anyway. It irks me to no end when folks say "110", "220" (unless they actually mean 220), "bx cable", and a few others I can't think of now. In my opinion, using incorrect terminology to pander to the ignorant, is not the way to teach. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:05 | comment | added | Tester101 Mod | If you take a look at the User section of the site, I think you'll find that my name could already be Editor101 ;) | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:01 | comment | added | Tester101 Mod | No need to be nasty. From what I heard, they were very nice in their request (of the exact details I am not privy). | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 1:43 | history | answered | Mazura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |