LEGO Nomenclature article from The Morning News

[Noodles140]

Article on LEGO nomenclature from The Morning News about the many different names children have for the many different LEGO parts.

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/opi...go_families.php

[Peppermint_M]

After reading that article, boy they should have explained the object better to the five year old, he didn't seem to understand the idea of the task...

Yes, we all have our own words for Lego bricks in my family. This started 13 years ago when me and my sister and my mother played and has contiuned to be added to as the years went by. Nowadays it is me and my 8 year old brother in the Loft building in our seperate halves. Our request for parts is described in a mixture of "family" names how an 8 year old describes parts and a bit of fan speak from me (plus some of the obtuse Bricklink discriptions). Often times we just wave a part at each other and ask if there are any spares in the right colour in the others collection.

Why don't we turn it into a guess the part game?

We have: Clippy top, clippy side and clippy.

Smooth left long slope.

Oven.

and side bits.

(Just off the top of my head) It would be interesting to see if we share similar names for parts and if anyone can guess what I am refering to.

[Etzel]

Article on LEGO nomenclature from The Morning News about the many different names children have for the many different LEGO parts.

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/opi...go_families.php

Very interesting article!

Thanks for bringing it up, Noodles140!

I remember when me and my brother was building together when we was young and we knew what part the other was talking about (or we could easily explain it). Nowadays I build by myself so I hardly ever uses any of "my" names for the pieces (even if I probably think of them when I looking for the pieces). But I think I'm more and more have changed to use the official names of the pieces to easier communicate with other AFOLs. It's really confusing (and funny) when you discover that someone has a totally different name for a piece than you have. Here in Sweden it's also a problem if you should use the official English names, translate them to Swedish or come up with a new Swedish name.

[Milan]

I remember when me and my brother was building together when we was young and we knew what part the other was talking about (or we could easily explain it). Nowadays I build by myself so I hardly ever uses any of "my" names for the pieces

Haha, exactly the same story here!!!

[Big Cam]

I don't have any kids but after becoming a member here and learning many part names from bricklink, I'd say that I have different eords for many of LEGO's fancier pieces.

[Derek]

Haha! :laugh:

That was cute, thanks for sharing!

-darthperson

[harrysnapperorgans]

We had funny names growing up - flat two peice (1x2 tile), skinny two piece (1x2 plate), two piece (1x2 brick) and wide two peice (2x2 brick)

Now I just use bricklink names in my head as I don't build with anyone else, sadly.

[MrTools]

Thanks for sharing that article! Although now i'm sad for my dad never asked for the bent four-er or the spinny bit while helping me build a rocket, he just tells me to "pick ot that piece off the floor before i vacume it up"

[Forresto]

Ahhhhh fond memories.

Thank you for posting this, it's funny what people call different pieces. I remeber that some of the wierder pieces I just did'nt name. For some strange reason I used to call them 2x4 or 3x6 ect. . .

[brickzone]

We used to have fat bricks and thin bricks for 1 and 2 wide bricks. So no two-by-fours but rather a "fat fourered". Same for 1 and 2 wide plates ("flat bricks"). "Fat flat" was in hindsight a bit of a tongue twister for an adjective. 5-tall bricks were "wall bricks" (1x2x5 or 1x3x5) or pillars (1x1x5). We used the nomenclature "onered, twoered" etc. to describe length.

Slope bricks were "Slopey bricks" and the shallower ones (depth of 3 studs) were flat slopey bricks. Inverted slopes were of course "upside-down slopey bricks".

Other important parts for us when space building were "boosters" (aeroplane engine parts, small or big), guns (modified 1x2 plate with handles both sides) and glowy bricks (transparent bricks).

Various plates with clips were of course, clippy bricks. Grille plates were flat radiator bricks (the 1x2 bricks with grille were radiator bricks). 1x1 bricks with headlight were "headlamp bricks".