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The article correctly calls it "TCP/IP in Lego(TM)". Isn't Legos a city in Nigeria or a character in Lord of the Rings? :)

by biot 14y ago

stephen_g 14y ago
This really annoys me too - I always think of the Leggos brand of pasta sauce whenever I see that mistake.
tfm 14y ago
[OT] Woah, takes me back to the bad old days of a.r.k https://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/search?q=%22lego+bricks+and+toys%22 https://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/search... The nounal usage "Legos" just wasn't one I heard until I was exposed to this Internet. Correct en_AU usage is to deploy "Lego" as its own plural. Dialects! Back on-topic, I'm kicking myself that I didn't think of using Lego when I was tutoring TCP/IP, but ... I was also kinda hoping this article would show some sort of robot-based assembly line with motors and (of course) a bit bucket for lost packets. To the Legotorium!
hkmurakami 14y ago
LOR character is Legolas :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_rings#Main_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_rings#Main_charact...
sjtrny 14y ago
"Legos" makes the tiny bit of OCD in me go crazy
brc 14y ago
Legos - so very much a personal pet peeve. see this discussion: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10839/legos-not-lego http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10839/legos-not-l... Although I very much disagree with the upvoted answer which essentially says we're free to invent words and call it english. 1 Company called Lego 1 lego brick or piece 1 lego set 1 lego construction 2 lego bricks or pieces 2 lego sets To me, it's like 'sheep'. One sheep, flock of sheep - never 'sheeps'. It's not so much the problem of pluralising the word, but by pluralising it, you're saying that individual piece is a Lego, which makes no sense to me. EDIT: To prove my point. Take this story: A man walks into an Apple Store. He buys 1 Apple MacBook, 2 Apple iPods and 3 Apple iPads. He takes them home to configure and set up. His wife walks in. Does she say: a) Oh look, my husband is playing with his new Apple products b) Oh look, my husband is playing with his new Apples
- stephen_g 14y ago
  I like how the accepted answer pretty much declares "all pluralisation in English works by adding 's' or 'es'," completely missing out on other completely normal words, like "a basket full of fish[1]"... 1. 'Fishes' can also be valid in tht circumstance - http://australianmuseum.net.au/fish-and-fishes http://australianmuseum.net.au/fish-and-fishes - but 'fish' is still a correct English plural.
  - lotsofcows 14y ago
    "Fish" is not the correct English plural as a cursory examination of any English Bible written in the last 600 years will prove. Other discussions on this site lead to the following addendum: When using the word "English" I mean English as spoken by the English in England. Not the USAian dialect.
    - phaemon 14y ago
      Ezekiel 47:9 And everything that liveth, which moveth, wheresoever the rivers shall come, shall live, and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be wholesome, and everything shall live whither the river cometh. - 1599 Geneva Bible ...and the KJV has similar. You didn't even check! :)
      - lotsofcows 14y ago
        I was thinking of the parable of the fishes: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A19&version=KJV http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A19&... http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A19&version=GNV http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A19&...
- anonymous 14y ago
  Sheep is a bug in the language and the only reason it's not fixed is because it's not used very often. Like scissors and pants, which have correctly evolved to "a scissor" and "a pant" where I live. On the subject of Lego: Lego the company - "Lego had high profit this year" A lego heap - "Put away the lego when you're done with it" A lego piece - "I'm looking for a 2x3 lego and three 2x2 block legos" It's all very understandable and natural and you should just let go.
sc00ter 14y ago
It's one of those wrongs that will never be righted - like brits calling Los Angeles 'Los Angelease', or those who, after all these years of hearing it pronounced correctly still insist on calling Linux 'Lynux'.
mangamadaiyan 14y ago
Nit pick: the Nigerian city is Lagos, and the LOTR character is Legolas.

The article correctly calls it "TCP/IP in Lego(TM)". Isn't Legos a city in Nigeria or a character in Lord of the Rings? :)

by biot 14y ago

The article correctly calls it "TCP/IP in Lego(TM)". Isn't Legos a city in Nigeria or a character in Lord of the Rings? :)

stephen_g 14y ago

This really annoys me too - I always think of the Leggos brand of pasta sauce whenever I see that mistake.

tfm 14y ago

[OT] Woah, takes me back to the bad old days of a.r.k https://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/search?q=%22lego+bricks+and+toys%22 https://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/search... The nounal usage "Legos" just wasn't one I heard until I was exposed to this Internet. Correct en_AU usage is to deploy "Lego" as its own plural. Dialects! Back on-topic, I'm kicking myself that I didn't think of using Lego when I was tutoring TCP/IP, but ... I was also kinda hoping this article would show some sort of robot-based assembly line with motors and (of course) a bit bucket for lost packets. To the Legotorium!

hkmurakami 14y ago

LOR character is Legolas :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_rings#Main_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_rings#Main_charact...

sjtrny 14y ago

"Legos" makes the tiny bit of OCD in me go crazy

brc 14y ago

Legos - so very much a personal pet peeve. see this discussion: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10839/legos-not-lego http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10839/legos-not-l... Although I very much disagree with the upvoted answer which essentially says we're free to invent words and call it english. 1 Company called Lego 1 lego brick or piece 1 lego set 1 lego construction 2 lego bricks or pieces 2 lego sets To me, it's like 'sheep'. One sheep, flock of sheep - never 'sheeps'. It's not so much the problem of pluralising the word, but by pluralising it, you're saying that individual piece is a Lego, which makes no sense to me. EDIT: To prove my point. Take this story: A man walks into an Apple Store. He buys 1 Apple MacBook, 2 Apple iPods and 3 Apple iPads. He takes them home to configure and set up. His wife walks in. Does she say: a) Oh look, my husband is playing with his new Apple products b) Oh look, my husband is playing with his new Apples

stephen_g 14y ago
I like how the accepted answer pretty much declares "all pluralisation in English works by adding 's' or 'es'," completely missing out on other completely normal words, like "a basket full of fish[1]"... 1. 'Fishes' can also be valid in tht circumstance - http://australianmuseum.net.au/fish-and-fishes http://australianmuseum.net.au/fish-and-fishes - but 'fish' is still a correct English plural.
- lotsofcows 14y ago
  "Fish" is not the correct English plural as a cursory examination of any English Bible written in the last 600 years will prove. Other discussions on this site lead to the following addendum: When using the word "English" I mean English as spoken by the English in England. Not the USAian dialect.
  - phaemon 14y ago
    Ezekiel 47:9 And everything that liveth, which moveth, wheresoever the rivers shall come, shall live, and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be wholesome, and everything shall live whither the river cometh. - 1599 Geneva Bible ...and the KJV has similar. You didn't even check! :)
    - lotsofcows 14y ago
      I was thinking of the parable of the fishes: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A19&version=KJV http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A19&... http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A19&version=GNV http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A19&...
anonymous 14y ago
Sheep is a bug in the language and the only reason it's not fixed is because it's not used very often. Like scissors and pants, which have correctly evolved to "a scissor" and "a pant" where I live. On the subject of Lego: Lego the company - "Lego had high profit this year" A lego heap - "Put away the lego when you're done with it" A lego piece - "I'm looking for a 2x3 lego and three 2x2 block legos" It's all very understandable and natural and you should just let go.

sc00ter 14y ago

It's one of those wrongs that will never be righted - like brits calling Los Angeles 'Los Angelease', or those who, after all these years of hearing it pronounced correctly still insist on calling Linux 'Lynux'.

mangamadaiyan 14y ago

Nit pick: the Nigerian city is Lagos, and the LOTR character is Legolas.