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monster

01-27-2010 09:39 PM

You'd be amazed at what can be done with the specialized pieces if your imagination is wild enough! :eek:

DanaC

01-27-2010 09:52 PM

'legos' is really jarring with me. Just like 'math' jars.

monster

01-27-2010 09:53 PM

I hear you

monster

01-27-2010 09:54 PM

... but I've "gotten" used to it ;) :p

DanaC

01-27-2010 09:59 PM

*grins*

Actually, 'gotten' finds its way into my language now. Probably because I spend so much bloody time online with Merkins :P

monster

01-27-2010 10:01 PM

urgh. I can say legos and math if I must, but gotten is only ever written and under duress

xoxoxoBruce

01-28-2010 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 630451)

'legos' is really jarring with me. Just like 'math' jars.

Yes it must be jarring... really disquieting to discover you've been saying it wrong for so many years. :p

ZenGum

01-28-2010 05:39 AM

Lego is a mass noun to me.

With several of the specialist kits, a good stash of general lego, and some imagination, you can make entirely new things.

DanaC

01-28-2010 05:52 AM

Yep: lego refers to the whole thing. Lego is made up of individual bricks.

'Maths', meanwhile is the shortened version of 'mathematics'. If you had to shorten the word 'qualification' you'd shorten it to 'qual'. If you had to shorten the word 'qualifications', you'd shorten it to 'quals'

classicman

01-28-2010 07:51 AM

wait . . . what? Lego is the individual block - more than one makes it plural = Legos.

DanaC

01-28-2010 08:15 AM

Nope. Lego refers to the whole (a lego set, or all lego), the individual components are lego bricks, or just bricks. Each individual brick is not a 'lego'.

Sundae

01-28-2010 08:16 AM

The plural of lego is lego.

DanaC

01-28-2010 08:17 AM

From wiki:

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The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well". The name could also be interpreted as "I put together" and "I assemble" in Latin, though this would be a somewhat forced application of the general sense "I collect; I gather; I learn"; the word is most used in the derived sense "I read".

Calling each brick 'a lego' makes as much sense as callling a breezeblock 'a construction' and then referring to a pile of breezeblocks as 'constructions.'

xoxoxoBruce

01-28-2010 08:29 AM

Written some damn foreigner that probably calls his trousers a pant. :p

classicman

01-28-2010 08:42 AM

HA HA HA - This is great - You guys actually got me to google this . . .

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Which is correct as the plural of LEGO: 'Lego' or 'Legos'? Neither, actually. The word 'LEGO', when used as a noun, should only refer to the company that makes the product. Otherwise 'LEGO' is supposed to be used as an adjective. Thus, when referring to the pieces, neither 'lego' nor 'legos' is correct... rather one should say: 'LEGO bricks' or 'LEGO pieces' or whatever (using LEGO as an adjective -- and one should really capitalize all of the letters, and put the little 'circle-R' symbol after it (®)). This is all a matter of protecting the trademark of 'LEGO' for the company (using it otherwise degenerates the strength of the trademark). This is not to say that I use the word correctly 100% of the time... but that's the answer to the question (it's always fun/painful to read the near-flame-wars that start at slashdot.org over this topic... and generally, both sides are wrong).

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