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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?

It's a mass noun in some dialects and a count noun in others.

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?