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LEGO is an adjective. Never call it Legos.

by toast76 5y ago

bigsausagepizza 5y ago
I think you meant acronym? Either way, this is an irrelevant comment to make.
- tom_ 5y ago
  Adjective, apparently: https://twitter.com/lego_group/status/842115345280294912 https://twitter.com/lego_group/status/842115345280294912
  - OJFord 5y ago
    The unfortunate thing about that is that it's wrong. I don't mean the usage, I'm British so I'm firmly 'lots of Lego', but it's obviously a noun. Using it to describe a brick etc. doesn't preclude that. (It's 'attributive', or 'adjunct'.)
    - mekkkkkk 5y ago
      Is "SQL" in "SQL server" also a noun? Not trying to argue one way or the other, I honestly don't know (non-native english speaker).
      - dragonwriter 5y ago
        In “SQL Server”, “SQL” functions as an adjective modifying “Server”; its not unusual for what are normally nouns to do that, distinguished only by position(e.g , “hat” in “hat rack”.)
        mekkkkkk 5y ago
        So when the LEGO™®© folk are arguing that "LEGO is always an adjective", they might mean that using it as an adjective noun is the correct thing to do, rather than claiming that "LEGO" by itself is an adjective? I suppose that since "LEGO" is the name of a real concept (the LEGO system) it's unavoidably a noun in essence.
        OJFord 5y ago
        Wikipedia says [0] 'adjectival noun' was 'formerly synonymous, but now usually means an adjective used as a noun'. Regardless, it's not an adjective, much less 'always' - it's always a noun; sometimes used attributively ('adjectivally' if you like) / as a noun adjunct, such as in 'Lego bricks'. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_adjunct#Related_concepts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_adjunct#Related_concepts
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Uehreka 5y ago
In vernacular American speech (what a lot of us are doing here) the plural “Legos” is fine.
- hanoz 5y ago
  The plural of Lego may well be Legos, but Lego is the system not the brick, so unless you've got a plurality of systems, it's gratingly wrong to call Lego bricks Legos.
  - edoceo 5y ago
    Please relax. Even the company said they don't care. They're supposed to be fun, we don't need the syntax police. Now, please hand me that bendy-twoey.
    - cardanome 5y ago
      Programmers being very nitpicky about syntax is kind of a thing. US-Americans just get super defensive if they get called out on doing something different than the rest of the world. Sure it is not a big deal and I don't care about respecting the trademark of the Lego company but you can still accept that Legos is wrong. You are free to call it whatever but it will sound very grating to an international audience.
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  - TheGigaChad 5y ago
    Hang yourself, dumbass.
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tchanglington 5y ago
It’s aaactually a verb as in - Lego my stuff, asshole!
tjmc 5y ago
In Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and British/Australian/NZ English, LEGO is an uncountable noun like "rice" or "sand". The Danish LEGO company used to advocate this usage by printing the following on their sets: "Dear Parents and Children LEGO® is a brand name that is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely appreciate your help in keeping it special by referring to our bricks as "LEGO Bricks or Toys" and not just "LEGOS". By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand that stands for quality the world over." [1] So the singular form is clearly the manufacturer's intention, but "Legos" is widely used in North America and is just one of those words that grates if you haven't grown up with it. For whatever reason I have the same reaction when the Poms say "kit" instead of "equipment". [1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10839/what-is-the-correct-plural-form-of-lego-lego-or-legos https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10839/what-is-th...
- dkdbejwi383 5y ago
  > For whatever reason I have the same reaction when the Poms say "kit" instead of "equipment" This is interesting, and one I’ve never noticed. Would you say “the drum equipment has been set up” vs “the drum kit has been set up”? Or more in the sense “the kitchen has been equipped” vs “the kitchen has been kitted out”?
  - tjmc 5y ago
    Probably the latter in both cases. I'd still use the word kit to denote something that comes disassembled that you need to put together. It's more like when someone describes their new phone as a "nice bit of kit". Ugh!
- Kosirich 5y ago
  The word LEGO wouldn't exist if not for the company. The wikipedia article actually doesn't say the full story about how the name came to be aka "leg godt (play well)" => LEGO came from a "naming competition" that the founder made and which he ended up winning. The company would like that the word "Legos" isn't used as it implies that "Legos" are plastic interconnecting bricks of any manufacturer, including the ones that just blatantly copy even the newest LEGO sets.

LEGO is an adjective. Never call it Legos.

bigsausagepizza 5y ago

I think you meant acronym? Either way, this is an irrelevant comment to make.

tom_ 5y ago
Adjective, apparently: https://twitter.com/lego_group/status/842115345280294912 https://twitter.com/lego_group/status/842115345280294912
- OJFord 5y ago
  The unfortunate thing about that is that it's wrong. I don't mean the usage, I'm British so I'm firmly 'lots of Lego', but it's obviously a noun. Using it to describe a brick etc. doesn't preclude that. (It's 'attributive', or 'adjunct'.)
  - mekkkkkk 5y ago
    Is "SQL" in "SQL server" also a noun? Not trying to argue one way or the other, I honestly don't know (non-native english speaker).
    - dragonwriter 5y ago
      In “SQL Server”, “SQL” functions as an adjective modifying “Server”; its not unusual for what are normally nouns to do that, distinguished only by position(e.g , “hat” in “hat rack”.)
      - mekkkkkk 5y ago
        So when the LEGO™®© folk are arguing that "LEGO is always an adjective", they might mean that using it as an adjective noun is the correct thing to do, rather than claiming that "LEGO" by itself is an adjective? I suppose that since "LEGO" is the name of a real concept (the LEGO system) it's unavoidably a noun in essence.
        OJFord 5y ago
        Wikipedia says [0] 'adjectival noun' was 'formerly synonymous, but now usually means an adjective used as a noun'. Regardless, it's not an adjective, much less 'always' - it's always a noun; sometimes used attributively ('adjectivally' if you like) / as a noun adjunct, such as in 'Lego bricks'. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_adjunct#Related_concepts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_adjunct#Related_concepts
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Uehreka 5y ago

In vernacular American speech (what a lot of us are doing here) the plural “Legos” is fine.

hanoz 5y ago
The plural of Lego may well be Legos, but Lego is the system not the brick, so unless you've got a plurality of systems, it's gratingly wrong to call Lego bricks Legos.
- edoceo 5y ago
  Please relax. Even the company said they don't care. They're supposed to be fun, we don't need the syntax police. Now, please hand me that bendy-twoey.
  - cardanome 5y ago
    Programmers being very nitpicky about syntax is kind of a thing. US-Americans just get super defensive if they get called out on doing something different than the rest of the world. Sure it is not a big deal and I don't care about respecting the trademark of the Lego company but you can still accept that Legos is wrong. You are free to call it whatever but it will sound very grating to an international audience.
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- TheGigaChad 5y ago
  Hang yourself, dumbass.
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tchanglington 5y ago

It’s aaactually a verb as in - Lego my stuff, asshole!

tjmc 5y ago

In Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and British/Australian/NZ English, LEGO is an uncountable noun like "rice" or "sand". The Danish LEGO company used to advocate this usage by printing the following on their sets: "Dear Parents and Children LEGO® is a brand name that is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely appreciate your help in keeping it special by referring to our bricks as "LEGO Bricks or Toys" and not just "LEGOS". By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand that stands for quality the world over." [1] So the singular form is clearly the manufacturer's intention, but "Legos" is widely used in North America and is just one of those words that grates if you haven't grown up with it. For whatever reason I have the same reaction when the Poms say "kit" instead of "equipment". [1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10839/what-is-the-correct-plural-form-of-lego-lego-or-legos https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10839/what-is-th...

dkdbejwi383 5y ago
> For whatever reason I have the same reaction when the Poms say "kit" instead of "equipment" This is interesting, and one I’ve never noticed. Would you say “the drum equipment has been set up” vs “the drum kit has been set up”? Or more in the sense “the kitchen has been equipped” vs “the kitchen has been kitted out”?
- tjmc 5y ago
  Probably the latter in both cases. I'd still use the word kit to denote something that comes disassembled that you need to put together. It's more like when someone describes their new phone as a "nice bit of kit". Ugh!
Kosirich 5y ago
The word LEGO wouldn't exist if not for the company. The wikipedia article actually doesn't say the full story about how the name came to be aka "leg godt (play well)" => LEGO came from a "naming competition" that the founder made and which he ended up winning. The company would like that the word "Legos" isn't used as it implies that "Legos" are plastic interconnecting bricks of any manufacturer, including the ones that just blatantly copy even the newest LEGO sets.