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Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:36:37 GMT
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D. Jezek <danjezek@REMOVEaloha.net> schreef in berichtnieuws
Fnt3v2.H6H@lugnet.com...

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Dalu cannot mean Lego in arabian.  Lego doesn't have any other meaning. • It's
just lego and it's a name of a company and a product.  I can see an • arabian
name for house or a horse or a bowl of soup but not lego.


If I recall correctly, "Lego" is Danish for "play" or something similar.

Just thought I'd let you know.  :o)

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Arjan Brugman
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abrugman@casema.net
Arjan.Brugman@philips.com



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  Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
 
According to the book, "The World of LEGO® Toys,1987, the Word LEGO, was coined by Ole Kirk, founder of LEGO, based on the danish phrase "leg godt" which translates to 'play well". Interesting side note is that Ole found out later the Latin word (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
  Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
 
(...) Yes, of course! %^/ What I meant to say is that the name of a company cannot be different in another country especially used as a logo on the box of a product. But someone else already said that and I'm not going to repeat it. :-x Seeing this (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)

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(...) I don't believe this. Why would someone go through all the trouble of making a fake box just because they wanted to keep the special pieces from that set? If they wanted to just get the pieces, they could auction off the rest for parts and I'm (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)

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