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JIAPING HU
(JIAPING) - F
Do you like use lid? on 05/10/2012 23:37:35 MDT Print View

Hi . I am a chinese climber .I am living Canada and work in climbing gym now . My English is not good. Sorry everyone.
I often use my cilogear 45L worksack for mountaineering in China. It is great. I just use pad and change strap set . Take off some D lock in pack so as to more light . For me .I dont want use lid . But I worry SilNylon is not strong . Will be easy break. Please give me some advice . It is enough? Or I need make new light lid. New one for helmet? Thank you! xiexie!
Richard Fischel
(RICKO) - F
no problem with no lid on 05/11/2012 08:31:45 MDT Print View

i go lidless with my cilogear packs all the time. if i don't need the volume or the segregated storage space why schlep the extra weight.
Randy Martin
(randalmartin) - M

Locale: Colorado
Re: no problem with no lid on 05/11/2012 09:30:11 MDT Print View

His English is not good so we should use more clear phrasing when responding.

"i go lidless (without a lid) with my cilogear packs all the time. if i don't need the volume or the segregated storage space why schlep (carry) the extra weight."

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That Other Jack Elliott
(JackElliott) - F

Locale: Bend, Oregon, USA
English? How about Yiddish? on 05/11/2012 19:14:58 MDT Print View

"Shlepp" is a Yiddish word. While a guy from China might struggle mightily with the English language, toss in a Yiddishism or two and the poor fellow is going to sink without a bubble.
Richard Fischel
(RICKO) - F
you got a problem with schlep? on 05/14/2012 07:45:05 MDT Print View

you underestimate and do our friend from china a disservice. you need to get with the times and http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/magazine/16wwln-safire-t.html?_r=1 and realize that *schlep* like many other words in english may have foreign origin, but is now part of the language. it wouldn't surprise me if schlep was part of the chinese language. and if you really wanted to be helpful you could have found the translation of *to schlep* in chinese http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-chinese/schlep 挟带(insert wink here).

Edited by RICKO on 05/14/2012 07:47:32 MDT.
John Jensen
(JohnJ) - F

Locale: Orange County, CA
Re: you got a problem with schlep? on 05/14/2012 08:16:06 MDT Print View

There was a funny show on PBS, about words and American language. In the opening sequence they started in NY and asked people what "schlep" meant. Everyone got it, transport, haul, etc. They headed south and it faded until they got nothing but "I don't knows." Then, as they got to TX it started to find meaning again ... or at least everyone told the same joke ... "I don't know her name, but I schlep with her last night!"

(schlep has a a literary depth, and passes my spell check, but English is a wide and flexible thing.)