OT-- I speak 'shop' to auto salvage yards

LOL.

Standardized "Aviation English" is about 300 words. I wonder how many words you could get Salvage English down to?

Not too darned many. :)

I should start a 'salvage yard' dictionary:

buck: noun. One hundred dollars

rear clip: noun. Includes: rear bumper, deck lid or hatch assembly, rear finish panel, left and right tail lamps, trunk floor, back glass, outer and inner roof panel and body floor pan up to the first seam.

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--Winston

I think I've heard that the Army enlisted vocabulary is around 100 words. A few choice words cover a very wide range of meanings.

The Voice of America writers had a list of about 900 words to use, excluding place names..

Your gentle server at A1 forgot the magic words: "Want me to find one for you?" whereupon you indicate in the affirmative.

G'luck on '80 Elk parts, though.

-- The ultimate result of shielding men from folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer

I think that's excellent idea. Sounds very useful.

I got a totally strange look when I walked into a hardware store and asked for a Weslock passage, Elegante, times five, 2 3/8 RCL. My locksmith wholesale house counter guy woulda asked how many did I want.

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I should start a 'salvage yard' dictionary:

--Winston

In the book "The Right Stuff" they did mention Army Creole.

One of my favorite lines is the jeep driver in the original MASH movie. The actor who played Dr. Joe Early in Emergency! at the hospital. I think IRL, he was married to Dixie McCall. Jack London, was his name, maybe?

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I think I've heard that the Army enlisted vocabulary is around 100 words. A few choice words cover a very wide range of meanings.

That was Bobby Troup. He was a musician. He wrote the song "Route 66". He was indeed married to Julie London, aka "Dixie". She was also a singer.She had also been married to Jack Webb.

Paul K. Dickman

Then why did you ask for one in a hardware store?

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That was just an example.

In real life, I was looking for a driver's seat for my older Camry because I was quite tired of the way it rocked fore and aft on deceleration and acceleration, respectively.

(I love that car, otherwise.)

It wasn't the original seat either. The original had a coffee stain on the right side, was well worn and had upholstery tears in two places, from the tool pouch I carry in my right hip pocket.

--But it didn't rock to and fro.

Shazam! How lucky can a guy get, I ask you?

But back to our Recycled Parts Monger this morning:

He didn't have a seat and didn't volunteer to locate one either.

That was lucky, because after further examination, I repaired my present seat by tightening a loose pivot mounting bolt, on the front port side of the seat frame.

DoH! My friends at the shop gave away a perfectly good seat because they couldn't locate and tighten one pivot bolt!

:)

--Winston

Oh, that brings back the memory. Thank you. In the places I've seen him, seems like a nice enough fellow.

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That was Bobby Troup. He was a musician. He wrote the song "Route 66". He was indeed married to Julie London, aka "Dixie". She was also a singer.She had also been married to Jack Webb.

Paul K. Dickman

I figured an old hardware store was likely to have a discontinued item on a dusty shelf. My wholesale house wasn't being very helpful.

Christ> I got a totally strange look when I walked into a hardware store and asked

Then why did you ask for one in a hardware store?

Whoopie ti yi yo, rocking to and fro.

Glad you got a seat that worked for you. So many things in life can be repaired, given the right tools and skills.

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In real life, I was looking for a driver's seat for my older Camry because I was quite tired of the way it rocked fore and aft on deceleration and acceleration, respectively.

You have to wave the bad part in their face, since most don't memorize all the stock numbers but some will remember seeing what you're looking for.

"Gimmewundeez!"

(how to talk hardware in one simple word.)

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You have to wave the bad part in their face, since most don't memorize all the stock numbers but some will remember seeing what you're looking for.

No words are needed in a real hardware store, if you have the old item. Unless they have multiple price ranges to chose from.

"Stormin Mormon" on Tue, 21 Feb

Oder "Braucht einaml" - same sort of thing in German. (That and "anrufen meinen Chef" solve my problems.)

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I'm *way* too close to San Francisco to be doing that.

--Winston

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Can you really trust a vocabulary which does not have words to say 'Give me the birds-eye lowdown on this caper.'?

--Winston

Not my problem. I live on the other side of the country, for a reason! :)