Fun For Dads and Kids Lego Nomenclature
Lego Nomenclature
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It's a scene that is replayed by kids and parents everywhere. And it's the starting point for a unique quirk of language: Lego nomenclature.
Typically, we will build spaceships. I’ll commence work on a solid chassis on which to hang all the fancy bits-the wings, superfluous for space flight but essential for seven-year-olds-and the greebles that make everything look, you know, more spaceship-y. My son will cast around for people-bits, with which to fabricate a spaceship pilot and perhaps a co-pilot. They will all need light sabers, of course. And control panels that move.
So each of us has a clear idea of which pieces we’re after, and two enormous plastic crates full of Lego from which to extract them.
It’s a scene that is replayed by kids and parents everywhere. And it’s the starting point for a unique quirk of language: Lego nomenclature. Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?” No. In our house, it’ll always be: “Dad, please could you pass me that four-er?”
And I’ll pass it, because I know exactly which piece he means. Lego nomenclature is essential for family Lego building.
“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.”
Read more including a ‘common nomenclature guide for Lego families’... perhaps you could make your own?
