[SEL] Aussie Translators?

[Skip Cleveland]

Adjustable wrenches are all Knuckle Busters.

Skip
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cam grundy" <ponchie at ozemail.com.au>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Aussie Translators?


> Hi Rob
>           I worked for an American Company on the International Airport in 
> Victoria Aus ( Morrison Knudson ) and it used to amuse me as the Yanks 
> called Shifters God Damned Adjustable. You couldn't put it any clearer 
> than Ed's explanation Cam
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Skinner" <rskinner at rustyiron.com>
> To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 5:44 AM
> Subject: [SEL] Aussie Translators?
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>> Are there any bilingual Aussies who speak both Aussie and American who 
>> can help
>> with translation?
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>> We Yanks have wrenchs.  Just about everything for turning fasteners 
>> externally
>> is called a wrench.
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>> If I understand correctly, the Poms have spanners.  The spanners are 
>> supposed to
>> work just about the same as our wrenches.
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>> This morning I was looking an an Aussie auction on ebay for some 
>> "shifters."
>> The shifters were of the "monkey wrench" sort, with smooth parallel jaws 
>> similar
>> to a pipe wrench.  In Oz, are all spanners and wrenches called shifters? 
>> Or
>> just adjustable wrenches?  Would a Crescent wrench be called a shifter? 
>> How
>> about a box end or open end wrench?
>>
>> Just trying to understand the finer nuances of the language... don't want 
>> to
>> cause any international incidents over imprecise communication.
>>
>> Rob
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>> =-=-=-=-=-=
>> Rob Skinner
>> La Habra, California
>> mailto:rskinner at rustyiron.com
>> http://www.rustyiron.com
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