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Discuss!!

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

We've done this one already I think (the Brick Commandments thing?)

Ive not time to search tho.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh well.

― Aja (aja), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

It is very funny tho I love it! :D

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

have you seen blockdeath.com?
classic.

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Lego is a mass noun, dammit. Thou shalt never try to pluralise it.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a thread about the Greek island, right?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

No, the city in West Africa?

― THAT Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"Legos Promote Solitude"
-- Chaki, The ILX Comp!: Track 3

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Lego is a mass noun, dammit.

haha "mass noun" good one.

― ken c, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Lego, as a collective noun, can be singular or plural in conjugation:
Lego is never to be written as Legos.
Lego are fun to play with.

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

um, that was supposed to be are, not fun

html is hard.

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The plural of Lego is Legos. Dammit, Catty, we nearly destroyed H0ax over this fight, just give up and accept that I am right.

In fact, if your logic were right, I am thinking more and more that Lego would be just the plural, and if you wanted a single piece of lego, you would ask for a "legus" or something.

― Kate 22 (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

We say Legos, because this is America, not fucking Denmark.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

(Where Catty and I live is called ENGLAND but it is still LEGOS, regardless.)

― Kate 22 (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

England is part of America because you speak American there.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

NA, don't make me... grrrrrrr!!! If it weren't for Sarah, I'd punch you on the nose for that!

― Kate 22 (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

collective noun isn't quite as good a pun though.

― ken c, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

(xpost)

― ken c, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

On the subject of legos, have you seen the new robot legos? They look so boring, it seems like you can build only that one robot out of the parts. I think the best thing about legos was that you could do anything with them; at least when I was kid, we used the "official" construction manual in the package maybe once, and then mixed the parts and built all sorts of wonderful and weird things out of 'em. That's why I think legos are (were?) the best toy ever, there's nothing that would fit a child's imagination better.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way, "lego" is not a plural in Danish either, I think.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with you on that, Tuomas. What I loved about legos were they were just blocks... I could build a fantastic country mansion with the same blocks that my brother could build an earth-destroying spaceship with. Legos which are too specialised into looking like just one thing destroy a child's imagination.

Though it is fun to use the new ones to build bizarre thinngs which are nothing like what they look like on the box.

― Kate 22 (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember working with my dad on one of the special Lego kits to make some kind of plane with an engine or something, and it was a good father-son project, like building a model car or something, but then once it was done, I took it apart to cannibalize the Legos for my own creations. The true fun of Lego has always been the free chaos of building something random from scratch.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm, I wonder whatever happened to my old legos? I had three huge boxes of 'em... I'll have to ask my mom, if they're still there, maybe I could throw a lego party.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I would treat the word Lego as you would a word like 'water' or 'blood'.
ie, What Catty Said

"Would you pass me some Lego"
"Would you pass me that piece of Lego"

'Legos' is just plain crazy talk, people.

(zillion trillion xposts)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it's Lego. There is no S. Putting an S on is both unnatural and wrong. Its like saying 'sugars'.

(xpost)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Kate 22 (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"How many legos would you like in your tea?"

(x-post)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you not take "two sugars" in your coffee or tea? Yes you do.

And it's still LEGOS.

― Kate 22 (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Despite the fact that 'Legos' is entirely illogical and wrong, it is clearly a widely accepted coinage and therefore I will not rip my own arm when I hear it even though that is my natural instinct.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I am inheriting all my nephews lego this christmas as my sister says they don't bother playing with it anymore (something to do with some contraption called an 'Xbox' being more important or something daft like that?)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not even a real word, it's a brand name innit.

― ken c, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Lego -- lock thread. Are we even discussing this?

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Because you're wrong. It's legos.

― Kate 22 (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"How many legos would you like in your tea?"
=
"How much lego would you like in your tea?"
"erm, none for me thanks" *runs away from Markelby*

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Legos (pl.) = panini (sing.) GRRRR

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Flip reverse -- is it 'Brios'? No. It's 'Brio'. QED

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

THIS THREAD IS SERIOUSLY COMPROMISING MY "KINDLER GENTLER MORE SENSIBLE AND SENSITIVE KATE" ROUTINE!!!!!

― Kate 22 (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

if anything you would say "Lego Bricks" or whatever form of Lego you happen to be putting in your tea.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Ste is my favourite poster today.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd refer to them as a '4-er' or whatever.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i like tom's explanation here - When you were a kid, what were your favourite toys? (and i see kate is still as vehement as ever)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Would anyone care to discuss about the actual toy instead of semantics?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

What's to discuss? Totally classic.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

'discuss about' ?!?!?!?!?! ;)

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

(Horace "You Pieces Of Lego" Mann to thread?)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

people shorten these things all the time though.

Get the BEERS in ken
No Bother.
Two STELLAS please
Sure
etc.

― ken c, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Mind my English, it's not my native tongue.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

oops.. supposed to read

mark: get the BEERS in ken
ken: no bother
ken: two STELLAS please
barmaid: sure
etc.

― ken c, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Two Stellae, please!

― Kate 22 (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The Finnish plural for "lego" ("legot") is also a slang expression for "teeth". Like this: "He got his legos kicked off."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"knocked his block off".. kind of

― ken c, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Though it is fun to use the new ones to build bizarre thinngs which are nothing like what they look like on the box.

Yeah! Like the Octopus Chariot of Death! It was awesome. Mela made it out of the sea and king arthur kits or something, and then she sent it after me when I mistakenly called it a Squidwagon.

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, that was all about Lego as a collective noun. I think Lego is singular because you're not holding part of a Lego, are you? Putting them all together implies you build a Lego. Saying each and every one of them are Lego and that all of them together are Lego suggests there is no difference between one Lego block and several. And there are.
Therefore, one Lego is a Lego. Many Lego are Legos. or, in France, Legeaux.

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Lego is the name for the whole system or, if you like, the material. You wouldn't say 'plasticines', for example.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The OED sez:
Lego, n. Also lego. [a. Da. Lego, a respelling of leg
godt ‘play well’, f. lege to play.]
A proprietary name for a constructional toy consisting principally of small interlocking plastic blocks; such blocks collectively.

1957 Trade Marks Jrnl. 5 June 598/2 Lego... Toy models and sets of parts for constructing such toys, all made of rigid plastics. 1969 Sunday Oregonian 14 Dec. I. 38/1 (Advt.), Jumbo lego, larger scale pieces of framed lego design. 1971 Habitat Catal. 108 No self-respecting toy box..should be without Lego. 1974 J. WILSON Snap vi. 85 ‘I want to make a submarine..’ said Max irritably, holding out an unwieldy cluster of Lego bricks... Ginnie sighed and joined up various pieces of Lego. 1986 Listener 6 Feb. 32/1 My feet ankle-deep in Lego models and Cindy dolls. 1991 DORRIS & ERDRICH Crown of Columbus ii. 29 He constructed labyrinthine Lego cities, but refused to tie his own shoes.

Note how they always use it as an adjective rather than a noun? "Lego cities," "Lego bricks".... nice of them to skirt the issue. Fuckers.

― Catty (Catty), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Accordingly to certain sources the 'Lego' bods want everyone to call it 'lego' as a plural because this retains the corporate name. Apparently

but call it want you want

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that just proves it. Companies can't patent words which have been absorbed into English. Fight the corporate hoards! Next you'll be telling me I can't call sheets of copied paper "xeroxes" or painkillers "aspirins" or something.

It's LEGOS.

― Kate 22 (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

bleurgh i almost typed lego into my system at work

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Leggo my legos!!!

― Kate 22 (kate), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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