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Re: Jeremy's exercises.
From: Jeremy C
Date: 2008 May 23, 15:54 EDT
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From: Jeremy C
Date: 2008 May 23, 15:54 EDT
In a message dated 5/23/2008 6:57:33 P.M. West Pacific Standard Time,
george@huxtable.u-net.com writes:
Jeremy wrote-
It reminds me of when I was unloading in Southampton, UK and this
| longshoreman was telling me a joke and I couldn't for the life of me
understand
| what he was talking about because of his slang.
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British humour, as well as local accent, can tend to be impenetrable to
Americans (and to me, too, often).
But he wouldn't have recognised himself as a "longshoreman". They don't
exist, here. He would have been a "docker". Or else, one of that select band
of skilled specialists, a "stevedore", who stow a cargo below decks in such
a way that it doesn't shift whatever the weather, and on whose art the
safety of a vessel may depend. Theirs is a craft that is rapidly vanishing
in these days of bulk cargoes and containers.
We call them either Longshoreman or stevedores. I have never used the
term "docker," but that is interesting to know. This was a RoRo
vessel and we were loading Land Rovers bound to the USA so I guess he would be a
stevedore as he was working the lashings.
Jeremy
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