I don’t know, what do you call it?
Today, The Morning News has a charming piece on The Common Nomenclature for Lego Families, where they discuss how families who play with Legos have come up with names for the individual Lego pieces, and how these names are unique to each individual family (make sure to take a gander at the PDF at the end of the story).
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 2×2?” 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.
In my family, the piece in that thumbnail would be called a Red-8. I’m not sure what the official Nerdery nomenclature is, but chances are Jess the official Nerdery Lego mailer could tell you.
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Art on November 4th, 2009
This assumes I actually spoke to anyone else when I played with Legos, which was not the case. Legos require a laser-like focus.
Matt Tonak on November 4th, 2009
In my family, we would just dig through the pile and find a reference piece and say “I need more of these, but blue instead of red.”