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What does your kid call the square LEGO
with four little bumps on top? The round cylinder
that looks like a beer mug? The little dot used for headlights on a LEGO truck? The Morning News chatted up a bunch of kids and found everyone has a different name for individual pieces in the LEGO brick ...
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A LEGO By Any Other Name
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Every Lego Family Speaks Lego In Its Own Way
Daddy Types —
... "Dad, I'm building a roof for the medical pod, but I need a hinge-y bit to make it open up. You know, one of those four-er flat hinge-y bits." Raimi often builds spaceships but has never referred to the pieces by name, until prompted by his father--at which point he reveals that he possesses names for all of them in his head.Yes I do know. I'll keep my eye out for one, I say. And do you want this flat groovy piece to go on the top there, behind your lasers? "Oh, thanks Dad." A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families [themorningnews.org]
Could You Please Pass ... the LEGO?
MomLogic —
... enthusiast, has come up with his own family nomenclature -- actually 4 different versions, one for each of his four children (Barney, Raimi, Max, and Jem), to make the constant LEGO construction that goes on in his house easier. Here's the full list of names developed by the Turnbull family. Do you have your own?
A LEGO By Any Other Name
Strollerderby —
... after her bath. Of course these are all bastardizations of actual words.
For LEGOs, there is no word on the box for each piece. It’s up to your family to come up with your own. Good adjective-using practice for your kids. And off the top of my head, I can’t think of much else in the toybox that provides that opportunity. Truck parts have real names. Ditto doll parts. Puzzle pieces can be described by the picture on them. Play-Doh has its color.
Check out the LEGO nomenclature, than come back and tell us: what else has a strange name in ...
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