Another community that I am a part of and share a very unique and specific language with is the community in which I work. I work for a small buisness on the north side of Fort Collins called Earthstone Products. What I do at Earthstone is create manufactured stone. In the process of making this stone there is some basic pieces of language that you must know to understand the product. First of all you have to know the basic names of the products. We create 2 general types of stone. The first is called pation stone. This is an obvious one as the stone is created with the intention of using it to produce a pation. Withing this category, however, there is another set of terms to describe what kink of stone you will be buying. First of all you have to look at one of the many sizes that we offer. First you can get basic square and rectangle shaped pieces that either come as 1x1's, 1x2's, or 2x2's (measured in feet). You could also be looking at doing a circle pation in which you would need to be using what is called radius stone. The next set of language that you would need to know if you were looking into stone would be the color. Patio stone comes in 4 different colors, blended sage, prary gold, rustic brown (the most popular), and gunsmoke grey (my favorite because its the easiest and cleanest to produce).
The other type of stone we make is called venere. Venere is a stone that is used to put on eitherthe exterior or interior of bouldings. It can go on houses like brick, put around fireplaces, or on exterior collumns and walls. First you will need to distinguish petween corners and flats. Courners obviously fit around the corners of walls and flats cover the remainder. There are four types of Venere you can use. Ledgestone which sort of looks like different shaped bricks, river rock which is different sized rounded stone, field stone which is very differently shaped jagged stones, and weathered field which is the same as fieldstone but with smother surfaces. Within the venere category there is also many different colors as wiht the patio.
Why I need to know this specific language set is aparent. It is imparitive that I can communicate with the guys at work as quickly as possible so we can keep the work on the appropriate schedule and to do that I have to have a great understanding of all of the different terms. Also it is important when dealing with customers. The people who come in to buy our product generally have no idea what their looking for an it is imperative that I am capable of explaining all that we do and all they need to know in a language that they will be able to understand.