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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 477420" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>I don't have a clue where "cargo" came from, but I do know how people convey thoughts and ideas. I know, for instance, that my friend flying rescue helicopters in Vietnam was not really in an orange crate. I know an uncle on a destroyer in the Korean War was not on a tin can. And that the C119 that I hitched a ride on many years ago was not a flying box car. And that the Chicago typewriter was not in fact a real typewriter, but ... It is just the English language at work. If the idea of "cargo" was to convey cheapness and inconvenience, then it worked. Now, I am told though I do not know that such language substitutions in Germany would go kerplunk on the kitchen floor as Germans tend to be literalists. They would lay an egg, so to speak.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 477420, member: 2175"] I don't have a clue where "cargo" came from, but I do know how people convey thoughts and ideas. I know, for instance, that my friend flying rescue helicopters in Vietnam was not really in an orange crate. I know an uncle on a destroyer in the Korean War was not on a tin can. And that the C119 that I hitched a ride on many years ago was not a flying box car. And that the Chicago typewriter was not in fact a real typewriter, but ... It is just the English language at work. If the idea of "cargo" was to convey cheapness and inconvenience, then it worked. Now, I am told though I do not know that such language substitutions in Germany would go kerplunk on the kitchen floor as Germans tend to be literalists. They would lay an egg, so to speak. [/QUOTE]
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