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"Lego" or "Lego blocks", never "Legos" (the title of the article gets it right)
by jdub 5y ago
"Lego" or "Lego blocks", never "Legos" (the title of the article gets it right)
- ktyckgcvk 5y agoAbsolutely correct. But trying to enforce this is a kind of persecution of people who grew up saying "Legos" because they didn't know any better. You are completely right, and I can't stand "Legos", but there's nothing we can do about it.
- Grakel 5y ago"Help, help, I'm being oppressed!"
- suprfsat 5y agoYou sound like the people who insist it's Kyiv not Kiev
- EB-Barrington 5y agoNo insistence, just mentioning that the only official (and therefore correct) transliteration from Ukrainian to English is "Kyiv".
- throwaway210222 5y agoNonsense, there is no legitimate way another language can tell English (or another language FWIW) what its name for a place must be. Examples: Deutchland - Germany, Allemagne, Doitsu Nederland - Niederland, Pays-Bas, Netherlands Zhōngguó - China, Nippon - Japan, Iapana Munchen - Munich, Monaco I can go on, but this phenomenon of prescribing the English word for a proper noun is very recent, and disrespectful of the long, native English (and very much world-wide) culture. English is not common property any more than Persian is. So, no: its Kiev [ and Ayers Rock :) ] when speaking English- that's if other people's cultures matter.
- k_ 5y ago> Munchen - Munich, Monaco As a french, this one caught me off guard. Didn't help that you used the french word as second alternative on first ones, but til that in italian Munich is called "Monaco di Baviera". Now I wonder what's in common between those two cities..
- vaccarium 5y agoThis is mostly but not entirely coincidental. The name München is derived from the word for monk, which would be "monaco" in Italian. Both "monaco" (monk) and "Monaco" (city) ultimately descend from μόνος (Greek for "solitary").
- helge9210 5y ago> when speaking English I guess, when not speaking English, you speak Russian, "tovarisch major".
- tomc1985 5y agoCoincidentally I was just reading that the variation in other language's names for Germany is because the country originally federated a bunch of nation-states together, and its neighbors simply called the new country the name of whoever they had been dealing with prior In any case it seems more respectful IMO to call a place the name by which it would be most recognized by that place's inhabitants. Practically, however, I learned the word 'Kiev' first, and 'Kyiv' just now, so Kiev it is. Framing the differences here as disrespecting other people's culture is a bit of a stretch, though.
- throwaway210222 5y ago> Framing the differences here as disrespecting other people's culture is a bit of a stretch, though. What would you call the insulting hysteria that occurs when an English speaker doesn't change his language and culture to use some foreign-language word for a place? You'll notice no one goes around demanding a billion Chinese change from 'Měiguó' to the 'USA'. Hell, even the Germans get away with calling 'Beijing' Peking. Its just the poor, down-drodden Anglos. :)
- helge9210 5y agoFormer is the proper name, latter is from the Soviet toponimics and is not relevant anymore.
- kbutler 5y agoYes, yes, trademarks are properly adjectives, so you also don't "google" or "use Google", you "search with the Google(tm) search engine". And you've never used a Kleenex - you've used a Kleenex(tm) tissue. Used to be the same for aspirin, trampoline, escalator, dumpster, etc., but those darn people kept using the names wrong, and now everyone agrees they are generic (except Dumpster). Or you can accept that human languages evolve and adopt new words that may be used in ways not approved of by corporate lawyers.
- eatYourFood 5y agoMaybe get a passport and visit another country you inbred American fuck.
- 908B64B197 5y agoSomeone's H1B got denied I suppose...
- gugagore 5y agoI'd like three water bottles. I'd like three waters. I'd like three Lego bricks. I'd like three Legos.