I'd like to say thanks to Scott at Western Reserve Controls WRC who has enlightened my vocabulary. It just now occured to me that Kapton is not pronounced captain. It's pronounced KaptON, because KaptON is made out of NylON. Right?

No. Kapton is made of polyimide. Nylon is polyamide. They're very different. Kapton is stable at higher temperature than nylon.

Granted English is not my first language, but why the heck would you pronounce "ain" for the "on" syllab?

Do you pronounce Lipton "liptain"? badminton, "badmintain"?

An ON switch "ain"?

But it's the same nomenclature in the whole industry lingual of Dupont. Like Teflon Is TeflON not teflen. Like DupONt chemicals, not dupent chemicals.

I pronounce it like Eric Clapton... because he lives in a hot place (California), and hasn't aged in years.

Therefore he must be heatproof,

I.e. Eric Kapton




... I'll get my coat

We can't even agree in England if Bath is pronounced as

Barth or Bath (as in math) ! Depends which bit of the country you come from.

I like this poem ;-)


I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.
Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth as in mother
Nor both as in bother, nor broth as in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
And do and go, then thwart and cart,
Come, come! I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful Language? Why man alive!
I learned to talk it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.

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DaveS
We can't even agree in England if Bath is pronounced as

Barth or Bath (as in math) ! Depends which bit of the country you come from.

I like this poem ;-)


I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.
Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth as in mother
Nor both as in bother, nor broth as in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
And do and go, then thwart and cart,
Come, come! I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful Language? Why man alive!
I learned to talk it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.

i am honestly not sure what to make of this thread, this is probably the first time a poem has been posted on here, perhaps we should start a page on the wiki for it, a reprap poem perhaps...?? i'm going to bed it's been a long day

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My printer isn't working,
I've got a little stressed,
My adhesion is substandard
And i'm wasting ABS

All i get is noodles,
That look a bit like hay,
Perhaps I should have read some more
and bought some PLA

At 20 pounds a kilo
I can't take it any more,
and slic3r keeps on crashing
so it's back to the eBay store

I've got errors with my Marlin;
problems with my config file,
perhaps I'll go and clean my bed
or smash it up in style

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ohioplastics
I'd like to say thanks to Scott at Western Reserve Controls WRC who has enlightened my vocabulary. It just now occured to me that Kapton is not pronounced captain. It's pronounced KaptON, because KaptON is made out of NylON. Right?

Yes, that's how the nice red apPLE got its name because its made from peoPLE... This is a really funny question considering how much of a troll you are in other threads.