Mac Plus made of legos at 1:1 scale

Re:Mac Plus made of legos at 1:1 scale by OJFord on Sunday April 18, 2021 @07:40PM (#26857672)

It's just an (North?) American thing - in the UK/Europe Lego is the proper noun company name, and adjectivally describes the brick or bricks.

Nobody says 'a lego' or 'some legos'; but similarly in the US I imagine you'd get a funny look (you'd never heard it before, after all) for saying 'a Lego brick' or 'some Lego bricks'.

(Actually, for anyone actually using Lego(s?), surely the real answer is that you speak in terms of their dimensions: 'a 2x4'; 'some 1x1s'..?!)

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Re:Mac Plus made of legos at 1:1 scale by eyelidlessness on Monday April 19, 2021 @12:19AM (#26859062)

Okay? There are a lot of American things I’d like to change. This falls far below my desire to say “maths” and much further below things that are actually impacting people’s lives.

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Re:Mac Plus made of legos at 1:1 scale by OJFord on Monday April 19, 2021 @06:52PM (#26868756)

Okay? I was only replying to your own comment on the issue; I'm not forcing you to think about it!

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