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Re: Lore on Lego vs. Legos
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:50:07 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote:
> > If "Legos" grates on you the way "nukuler" grates on me, then you have
> > my sympathy! Still, someone can refer to "Fords" or "Toyotas" without
> > causing an uproar, so there is some precedent for pluralized brandnames,
> > however incorrectly it might apply to LEGO.
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> There's the exact same technical/legalistic rule against saying "Fords" or
> "Toyotas" or "Burger Kings" or "Pentiums" or "Dells" or "Dumpsters". Or
> "Kleenexes" or "Band-Aids". Again as the original article pointed out. :)
Well, sure. But the original article was *days* ago--my mayfly attention span
hardly let's get to the end of
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 | | Re: Lore on Lego vs. Legos
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| (...) There's the exact same technical/legalistic rule against saying "Fords" or "Toyotas" or "Burger Kings" or "Pentiums" or "Dells" or "Dumpsters". Or "Kleenexes" or "Band-Aids". Again as the original article pointed out. :) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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