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Re:‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling... by toxican on Friday September 11, 2015 @10:05AM (#10203700)
I just can't bring myself to care. I'm a life-long lego fan, been playing with them since I was old enough to play with Duplo. As an adult, I've got shelves covered in lego sets, a lego brick tattooed on my wrist, and saw Lego Movie on release day. And I don't give a single shit what people call the bricks so long as it's not megablok, one of the other knockoff brands, or for some reason K'Nex.

I'm not lego's marketing department, I'm not their lawyer, I'm not their CEO. It's not up to me to give a crap about the pedantic nonsense that is their preference for how you refer to their product. It's not brand confusion. Lego, Legos, LEGO, LEGOS, whatever. People know what you're talking about, and they aren't getting the name "lego" mixed up with anything. People that see the Megabloks and other knock offs and think that they're legos are what they need to worry about. But an informed child, consumer, etc. knows better already. It didn't take very many Megablok sets before I realize they were incredibly inferior in quality and the colors were way off. Lego is obviously the superior product even to a child.

Okay so I lied. I do care, a lot. More than I should. But I'm just so sick of pedantic idiots hopping into conversations like some sort of know it all "WELL ACTUALLY....". Fuck off. Lego, legos, LEGOS, LEGO, doesn't matter we all know what's being talked about. And derailing discussions over that nonsense is obnoxious.

Re:‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling... by dwd on Saturday September 12, 2015 @01:23AM (#10207338)
A discussion is what it is and in this case a meta discussion on the language used in an article is no less appropriate given the response.

I couldn't bring myself to read it and wasn't alone and it annoyed me enough to say something. Should she have known better or care - maybe not. Her audience is probably just Silicon Valley and extend to the rest of the US.

But this is the Internet, so welcome to the wider world.

Re:‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling... by toxican on Saturday September 12, 2015 @04:55PM (#10209353)
Honestly if you can't bring yourself to read an article because of a brand used incorrectly, you need to get a grip. Fast.
Re:‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling... by anon4 on Friday September 11, 2015 @10:46AM (#10203940)
English people should give up on making new and weird rules for pluralising words in their language. We (a certain slavic country) just use consistent rules on almost all words, and never have a problem. Why the hell does it matter how the danish pluralise "lego"?