Tinker Toys and K'Nex are stupid. - Page 2

monster · 01-27-2010, 10:39 PM

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

DanaC · 01-27-2010, 10:52 PM

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

monster · 01-27-2010, 10:53 PM

I hear you

monster · 01-27-2010, 10:54 PM

... but I've "gotten" used to it

:p

DanaC · 01-27-2010, 10:59 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, 11:01 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce · 01-28-2010, 02:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanaC

'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, 06:39 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, 06:52 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, 08:51 AM

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

DanaC · 01-28-2010, 09:15 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, 09:16 AM

The plural of lego is lego.

DanaC · 01-28-2010, 09:17 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, 09:29 AM

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

classicman · 01-28-2010, 09:42 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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01-27-2010, 10:39 PM	#16
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	You'd be amazed at what can be done with the specialized pieces if your imagination is wild enough! __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-27-2010, 10:53 PM	#18
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I hear you __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-27-2010, 10:54 PM	#19
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	... but I've "gotten" used to it :p __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-27-2010, 11:01 PM	#21
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	urgh. I can say legos and math if I must, but gotten is only ever written and under duress __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-28-2010, 06:39 AM	#23
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	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. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

01-28-2010, 08:51 AM	#25
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	wait . . . what? Lego is the individual block - more than one makes it plural = Legos. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-28-2010, 09:16 AM	#27
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	The plural of lego is lego. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

01-28-2010, 09:29 AM	#29
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Written some damn foreigner that probably calls his trousers a pant. :p __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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