Right now I'm watching Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch, behind the scenes." They were just showing one of the fishing boats in some very heavy seas. They showed a diagram of the boat, with the main deck between fore and aft superstructures labeled as the "shelter deck." About the time they showed this one wave crashed over the side and proved was a misnomer "shelter" was. I did a Google search and found that shelter deck means " upper deck having no overhead protection from the weather, but sheltering the deck below." Huh? So the deck provides no shelter from the weather to those actually ON it, but it shelters the deck below? Clear as mud. I'm sorry but this term HAD to have been invented by an Englishman. They do everything backward,

Or someone that works for the federal government.

I love that show, plus man vs wild, and the show about the ice hwy.

The government labels thing s quite well. It just takes about a half a paragraph to descibe it I can only remember part of our desciption

tank, combat, fully tracked, 54 ton,105mm gun (there were a few more things thrown in before it finally said M60a1

yeah I know... they have all these damn fancy terms for things that don't even make sense to normal people. why can't they just make it simple for heaven sakes I swear it drives me nuts when do that. Well hopefully some one will understand.

Remember, in the US system, it's the most important noun first, most important adjective next, second most important noun, second most important adjective next, etc. etc. etc.

If you can read it backwards and it makes sense, you've done it right.