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Legos are just freaking neat. I don't know how else to put it.

by ravenstine 5y ago

verve_rat 5y ago
Lego is just freaking neat. It is singular.
- rogual 5y ago
  It's a mass noun in some dialects and a count noun in others.
- ravenstine 5y ago
  I don't agree. Other things from the Lego company like Legoland and the Lego Movie are just okay and not my thing. But Legos, as many in America refer to Lego pieces, are neat. Then again, I'm the type who doesn't refer to Linux distros as "GNU/Linux". ;)
  - cardanome 5y ago
    What is the mental hurdle for referring towards multiple Lego pieces as Lego? Legos sounds like the parent that says his child is playing on the Nintendos. It is like saying you watch animes instead of anime. Plural is still anime. When in doubt, just follow the source language for pluralization.
    - pjerem 5y ago
      None of your examples sounded wrong to me so… I guess I have a mental hurdle :)
    - JonathonW 5y ago
      If you want to get pedantic about it, "Lego" is a brand, used as an adjective; the toys made under that name are Lego bricks (stylized by Lego Group in official material as "LEGO bricks").
    - shiomiru 5y ago
      > Legos sounds like the parent that says his child is playing on the Nintendos. "Nintendos" sounds weird to me because for me a "Nintendo" is a console, and I rarely use more than one of those at the same time. When you say "Legos" on the other hand I interpret it as an abbreviation of something like Lego bricks. > It is like saying you watch animes instead of anime. Plural is still anime. "Animes" on the other hand sounds perfectly fine. We don't conjugate borrowed verbs in a different way either just because the source language has different rules for conjugation; the English borrowing of irregular plural forms is a special case which doesn't work with anime too well since an irregular plural form does not actually exist (as with most Japanese nouns). Not to mention the word is an abbreviation of "animation", another English word with a perfectly normal plural form. [1]: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lego#English https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lego#English
    - speedybird 5y ago
      Mental hurdle? There is no mental hurdle, I understand the wishes of the Lego corporation just fine. I say "legos" because that's what I've always said, it rolls off my tongue and feels comfortable to me, and I see no reason to change. Why should I defer to the wishes of the Lego corporation and let them dictate how I use language? Incidentally, I also call megabloks "legos" too. (I also say "animes" and "pokemons", but if I'm being honest those two are mostly just to get a rise out of the sort of people who would complain about that. I suspect most parents who say "nintendos" are similarly smirking when they say it, since the "NoooOOooo Dad that's not right!" responses are just too amusing.)
    - ravenstine 5y ago
      Sorry, but where I live everyone my entire life has referred to the Lego bricks as "Legos". Now let me ask you, why do you care?
amelius 5y ago
Also freaking expensive. I hope LEGO subsidizes this guy's endeavor.
- Cthulhu_ 5y ago
  The patent on lego expired some years ago, in theory there's plenty of cheaper alternatives out there. But if you've ever handled those, you know why lego is still the brand to go for. Their quality and precision is still unparalleled. And given they're established, have a lot of their own IPs and licenses for big hollywood productions, and have their production lines set up and tweaked over a seventy year period, it's unlikely that there will be a serious competitor anytime soon.
  - cardanome 5y ago
    The quality part is not really true anymore. Sure, Lego is still the gold standard but the competition is catching up fast. Arguable the Polish company COBI offers higher quality than Lego. The pieces stick together much stronger and they are known for using prints instead of stickers for details on the models. The Chinese competition is getting quite close as well and newer models might have closed the gap already. Of course what is keeping Lego alive is licenses. If you what to own a officially licensed Start Wars set, you have to buy Lego. Though the prices are getting ridiculous.

Legos are just freaking neat. I don't know how else to put it.

verve_rat 5y ago

Lego is just freaking neat. It is singular.

rogual 5y ago
It's a mass noun in some dialects and a count noun in others.
ravenstine 5y ago
I don't agree. Other things from the Lego company like Legoland and the Lego Movie are just okay and not my thing. But Legos, as many in America refer to Lego pieces, are neat. Then again, I'm the type who doesn't refer to Linux distros as "GNU/Linux". ;)
- cardanome 5y ago
  What is the mental hurdle for referring towards multiple Lego pieces as Lego? Legos sounds like the parent that says his child is playing on the Nintendos. It is like saying you watch animes instead of anime. Plural is still anime. When in doubt, just follow the source language for pluralization.
  - pjerem 5y ago
    None of your examples sounded wrong to me so… I guess I have a mental hurdle :)
  - JonathonW 5y ago
    If you want to get pedantic about it, "Lego" is a brand, used as an adjective; the toys made under that name are Lego bricks (stylized by Lego Group in official material as "LEGO bricks").
  - shiomiru 5y ago
    > Legos sounds like the parent that says his child is playing on the Nintendos. "Nintendos" sounds weird to me because for me a "Nintendo" is a console, and I rarely use more than one of those at the same time. When you say "Legos" on the other hand I interpret it as an abbreviation of something like Lego bricks. > It is like saying you watch animes instead of anime. Plural is still anime. "Animes" on the other hand sounds perfectly fine. We don't conjugate borrowed verbs in a different way either just because the source language has different rules for conjugation; the English borrowing of irregular plural forms is a special case which doesn't work with anime too well since an irregular plural form does not actually exist (as with most Japanese nouns). Not to mention the word is an abbreviation of "animation", another English word with a perfectly normal plural form. [1]: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lego#English https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lego#English
  - speedybird 5y ago
    Mental hurdle? There is no mental hurdle, I understand the wishes of the Lego corporation just fine. I say "legos" because that's what I've always said, it rolls off my tongue and feels comfortable to me, and I see no reason to change. Why should I defer to the wishes of the Lego corporation and let them dictate how I use language? Incidentally, I also call megabloks "legos" too. (I also say "animes" and "pokemons", but if I'm being honest those two are mostly just to get a rise out of the sort of people who would complain about that. I suspect most parents who say "nintendos" are similarly smirking when they say it, since the "NoooOOooo Dad that's not right!" responses are just too amusing.)
  - ravenstine 5y ago
    Sorry, but where I live everyone my entire life has referred to the Lego bricks as "Legos". Now let me ask you, why do you care?

amelius 5y ago

Also freaking expensive. I hope LEGO subsidizes this guy's endeavor.

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
The patent on lego expired some years ago, in theory there's plenty of cheaper alternatives out there. But if you've ever handled those, you know why lego is still the brand to go for. Their quality and precision is still unparalleled. And given they're established, have a lot of their own IPs and licenses for big hollywood productions, and have their production lines set up and tweaked over a seventy year period, it's unlikely that there will be a serious competitor anytime soon.
- cardanome 5y ago
  The quality part is not really true anymore. Sure, Lego is still the gold standard but the competition is catching up fast. Arguable the Polish company COBI offers higher quality than Lego. The pieces stick together much stronger and they are known for using prints instead of stickers for details on the models. The Chinese competition is getting quite close as well and newer models might have closed the gap already. Of course what is keeping Lego alive is licenses. If you what to own a officially licensed Start Wars set, you have to buy Lego. Though the prices are getting ridiculous.