Poll: Lego vs Legos

Page 6 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

anxi80

Lifer
Jul 7, 2002
12,294
2
0
Originally posted by: zayened
YOU WORKED AT LEGO?!?!?!?!
yes. but not like a master builder or anything like that. it was their theme park, legoland ca. and i gave them 3 years of my life. in fact, i still get postcards every summer asking me to return with all these pay and benefit incentives if i do.
 

bigredguy

Platinum Member
Mar 18, 2001
2,457
0
0
Hmm.... google found 20x more lego sites than legos sites. Maybe i was just a dumb kid.
 

tk149

Diamond Member
Apr 3, 2002
7,253
1
0
Googlefight!

I always said "Lego" was both singular and plural, but I guess the company's official line says otherwise.

I wonder how Danish people make singular words plural? Do they also add an "s" to the end of a word, as in English?
 

DeRusto

Golden Member
May 31, 2002
1,249
0
86
Originally posted by: EmoHawk
SO, fair enough the america dig was a bit low. As you state there is no official plural for lego, the company just call them lego bricks. This leaves the whole mutiple lego question open... On one hand it appears simple, just add an s, but this is not the case. The spelling and defenition of words is completely dependnt on the context they are in. In general (without beign nationalistic) european people refer to mutiple lego bricks as lego in exactly the same way as fish. In other places in the world.. people call lego bricks, legos. Thus showing that either is acceptable. In summation lego, legos I couldn't care less about what you call lego bricks, they will always be lego (singular or plural) to me.

Likewise fish can be pluralized as either fish or fishes, both are correct.
 

sao123

Lifer
May 27, 2002
12,653
205
106
LEGO's name has become so synonymous with their flagship toy that many use the words "LEGO" or "LEGOs" to refer to the bricks themselves, and even to any plastic bricks resembling LEGO bricks, although the LEGO company discourages such dilution of their trademark name LEGO catalogues in the 1970s and 1980s contained a note that read:

The word LEGO® is a brand name and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you! Susan Williams, Consumer Services.


Wikipedia on Trademark Genericism

Similar events are happening to
Xerox for copiers and Band-Aid for adhesive bandages are both trademarks that are at risk of becoming generic, which both brands actively try to fight. In order to prevent them from becoming generic, and to prove that they are attempting to defend the trademark, trademark owners often contact those who appear to be using the trademark incorrectly, from web page authors to dictionary editors, and request that they cease the improper usage. The proper use of a trademark means using the mark as a proper noun referring specifically to the product, or as an adjective, not as a generic noun or a verb


In no case can the Word Lego be used as a Noun, Singular or Plural. The word is a Adjective as in Lego Bricks or a Proper Noun as in Lego the corporation name. The word Lego/Legos cannot legally be used as a noun until a court rules that the trademarked term (lego/legos) has become "generic" through common use (such that the average consumer doesn't view it as a trademark). You cannot play with a Lego, any more than you can brew a Foldgers. You play with Lego Bricks and brew Foldgers Coffee.
 

tami

Lifer
Nov 14, 2004
11,588
3
81
the official trademark is "lego," but the plural use of the word has become standard over the years.
 

LethalWolfe

Diamond Member
Apr 14, 2001
3,679
0
0
Originally posted by: sao123
You cannot play with a Lego, any more than you can brew a Foldgers. You play with Lego Bricks and brew Foldgers Coffee.


I think I'm going to google LEGO so I can get a pic of some legos to photoshop. Then I'll print it out, Xerox some copies and FedEx them to all my friends.


It's called slang. Is it offically correct? No. Is it a defacto standard in the real world? Yes.


Lethal
 

So

Lifer
Jul 2, 2001
25,923
17
81
Originally posted by: LethalWolfe
Originally posted by: sao123
You cannot play with a Lego, any more than you can brew a Foldgers. You play with Lego Bricks and brew Foldgers Coffee.


I think I'm going to google LEGO so I can get a pic of some legos to photoshop. Then I'll print it out, Xerox some copies and FedEx them to all my friends.


It's called slang. Is it offically correct? No. Is it a defacto standard in the real world? Yes.


Lethal

 

RadeonGuy

Banned
Jan 3, 2005
294
0
0
Since there is more then one lego it becomes plural. So saying you played with Legos is the correct form
 

BeauJangles

Lifer
Aug 26, 2001
13,941
1
0
It might be technically correct, but saying "I played with Lego" just doesn't sound right.... it's Legos. It might be a bastardization of the word, but that's what EVERYONE I know says, and that's what I say, and I'm not going to change just because the Lego company says I'm wrong.... if anything, the "customer is always right," correct?
 

forpey

Member
Dec 21, 2004
61
0
0
Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
It might be technically correct, but saying "I played with Lego" just doesn't sound right.... it's Legos. It might be a bastardization of the word, but that's what EVERYONE I know says, and that's what I say, and I'm not going to change just because the Lego company says I'm wrong.... if anything, the "customer is always right," correct?


You don't have to change. Just know that your wrong.

Lego is both singular and plural. If people find this so strange, remember the English language is the stupidist.
 

Mathlete

Senior member
Aug 23, 2004
652
0
71
Which sounds better to you

A. I just went to the store and bought 5 pair of Nikes.
B. I just went to the store and bought 5 pair of Nike.

?

but...but...but...Nike is the name of the company

STFU and buy some legos to play with.
 

knyghtbyte

Senior member
Oct 20, 2004
918
1
0
Lets see, does anyone buy a single brick of LEGO?........no, you buy a LEGO set.......not a set of LEGOS or a LEGOS set, you buy.......wait for it........a LEGO set.

Scenario example. You and a friend are playing with your LEGO, your friend steals 2 bits you wanted to use to finish the Moonbase you are building, do you say

a) hey, i wanted to use those LEGO
b) hey, i wanted to use those LEGOS
c) hey, i wanted to use those LEGO bricks
d) hey, i wanted to use those bricks
e) hey, i wanted to use those bits

most people will choose d or e if they being honest so plural arguement is pointless.

The Ford/Fords example doesnt really work unless you are being verbally lazy, you dont buy Fords, you buy a Ford Fiesta, or Ford Galaxy, or Ford Escort, if u did buy multiples then you buy Ford Fiestas or if buying a mix of models then you are buying some cars. The cars are not bought so you can combine them together to make a super car, ok its possible to swap an engine from a Ford Fiesta to another Fiesta, but not to a Ford Sierra for instance. At least not without much work. Therefore Fords isnt a word in the example, however Ford's is when referring to the company itself, not the product.

However with LEGO, you buy LEGO sets, then like the cars there are different groups, Pirates, Space, Sea etc. However you obviously dont buy LEGO Spaces sets, you buy a LEGO Space set or sets. These sets can easily be combined and intermixed, therefore you can say i am buying some LEGO, or some LEGO sets, but not some LEGOS, again, its a sign of verbal laziness, bastardisation of The English Language. The Sheep example bears the case that there are exceptions to the rules of The English Language in definite form, however in their own way these exceptions become rules within themselves due to the words being nouns. Therefore LEGO should be left alone as it is, LEGO, not LEGOS.

yes, it was a boring day at work to give me time to write this nonsense...hehe
 
sale-70-410-exam    | Exam-200-125-pdf    | we-sale-70-410-exam    | hot-sale-70-410-exam    | Latest-exam-700-603-Dumps    | Dumps-98-363-exams-date    | Certs-200-125-date    | Dumps-300-075-exams-date    | hot-sale-book-C8010-726-book    | Hot-Sale-200-310-Exam    | Exam-Description-200-310-dumps?    | hot-sale-book-200-125-book    | Latest-Updated-300-209-Exam    | Dumps-210-260-exams-date    | Download-200-125-Exam-PDF    | Exam-Description-300-101-dumps    | Certs-300-101-date    | Hot-Sale-300-075-Exam    | Latest-exam-200-125-Dumps    | Exam-Description-200-125-dumps    | Latest-Updated-300-075-Exam    | hot-sale-book-210-260-book    | Dumps-200-901-exams-date    | Certs-200-901-date    | Latest-exam-1Z0-062-Dumps    | Hot-Sale-1Z0-062-Exam    | Certs-CSSLP-date    | 100%-Pass-70-383-Exams    | Latest-JN0-360-real-exam-questions    | 100%-Pass-4A0-100-Real-Exam-Questions    | Dumps-300-135-exams-date    | Passed-200-105-Tech-Exams    | Latest-Updated-200-310-Exam    | Download-300-070-Exam-PDF    | Hot-Sale-JN0-360-Exam    | 100%-Pass-JN0-360-Exams    | 100%-Pass-JN0-360-Real-Exam-Questions    | Dumps-JN0-360-exams-date    | Exam-Description-1Z0-876-dumps    | Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps    | Dumps-HPE0-Y53-exams-date    | 2017-Latest-HPE0-Y53-Exam    | 100%-Pass-HPE0-Y53-Real-Exam-Questions    | Pass-4A0-100-Exam    | Latest-4A0-100-Questions    | Dumps-98-365-exams-date    | 2017-Latest-98-365-Exam    | 100%-Pass-VCS-254-Exams    | 2017-Latest-VCS-273-Exam    | Dumps-200-355-exams-date    | 2017-Latest-300-320-Exam    | Pass-300-101-Exam    | 100%-Pass-300-115-Exams    |
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/    | http://www.portvapes.co.uk/    |