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Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego
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Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:00:12 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
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In lugnet.color, David Koudys wrote:
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In lugnet.color, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
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Then not to point this out, but when people sign ‘petitions’, they are
usually under the impression that the petition they sign is the one that is
going to be received.
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Hi David,
the CEO will of course get the original German letter, which - by the way -
got signed by far more often than this one here.
That one is written in our mother tongue and therefor superior in language.
Since we would give Lugnetters the chance to jump on this train we did an
English translation.
That translation is *very* near to German letter, but you have no pointed out
a minor mistranslation which is a kind of bad style, when used.
I see no need to restart all this again: if people are even signing the
“bad-stylish” letter, they will for sure be willing to subsrcibe the better
translation as well.
In case we hand out a translated letter to the CEO, that should of course be
the better translation. There is no change in the overall intention of the
letter, so we see no need to draw it back now.
Kind Regards,
Ben
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By changing the wording of the petition ‘after the
people have signed it’, yet still using the same attached names will open
you up a whole other ‘kettle o’ fish’!
Dave K
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I’ve got lots of suggestions for how you worded the letter, but my biggest
one--if the letter doesn’t fit on one page, revise until it is one page. Try to
keep your passion for the color change out of the discussion--because it only
makes one view the AFOL community as a bit irrational in the eyes of LEGO.
I have quite a bit of knowledge regarding injection molding, including
personally mixing color batches before plastic production. No facts regarding
cost of changing back to the old gray have been stated. In your letter, you
said some lines used old gray--where are your facts on that statement? If you
have the facts, they should be in that letter.
State your facts, then back them up. Don’t make this personal--make it
business.
-Scott Lyttle
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