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I find “LEGOs” very upsetting.

Lego is not an acronym. It does not usually get all-caps in prose, though the all-caps logotype is sometimes imitated in text.

Lego is a proper name, and is also used as a collective noun. It does not get pluralized.

“You can’t play with Lego anymore.”

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fuck that. Lego is a company and I don’t need it to tell me how I can and cannot use their name. if they don’t like it they can suck my dick.

I really don’t understand why there are so many people passionate about how to “properly” use The Trademark™ in The Way that was Sanctioned by The Corporation®

just play with your Legos and get over it

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Brought to you by the folks behind “Get Off That Nintendo and Go Outside” while you were PC gaming. Lol :p

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I assume the people are passionate about grammar, and their corrections have nothing to do with respecting trademarks.

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that’s even worse! especially because the vast majority of self proclaimed “grammar nazis” (really weird fucking title, guys) don’t know shit about linguistics as a science

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Legos is grammatically correct.

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I really don’t understand why there are so many people passionate about how to “properly” use The Trademark™ in The Way that was Sanctioned by The Corporation®

Actually, they are advocating against using it how the Lego company does. The Lego company uses LEGO in all caps.

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I’m pretty sure the reason Lego isn’t supposed to be used is because they don’t want the trademark to be genericized. the all caps thing is stylization, I doubt they give a shit if you type it all caps or not.

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LEGO is too an acronym. it stands for Leg Godt, Danish for “play well”

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That’s…not an acronym. That’d just be LG.

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what is it then?

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2 points

Language is flexible. Deal with it.

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3 points

You called down the ire of practitioners of the dark arts known as prescriptivism.

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Lego my eggo

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Lego deez nuts ha gottem

Hmm. Sorry bout that. What were we talking about?

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9 points

Lmao Legos adults

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1 point

Jackal.

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5 points

It’s actually an angry shout

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In my word, you put Lego Men in your Lego creations. No LEGOs, no minifigs [the Lego Men that are female are Lady Lego Men], and no sets.

The whole ‘you make the rules’ aspect of the toy has been lost in a dozen licensing agreements.

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you can never be too old for legos

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You need to be between 4-99 years of age

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Do I pay attention to you or the box? Because I sure don’t want to be the one who kills Jimmy Carter by giving him Minecraft Legos.

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I mean, his are probably hanging so low by now that they make legitimately enjoyable fidget toy.

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Wtf.

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This meme made me sad.

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+1 for the double entendre title 😄

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Thanks, I was proud of that.

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As well you should be 😄🤜

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Pardon my ignorance - what’s ‘play with my nuts’ a reference to for Carter, aside from his gonads?

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He was a peanut farmer.

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They made him put his family peanut farm in a blind trust so that he couldn’t benefit it during his time in office.

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