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Subject:	Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
Newsgroups:	lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:14:39 GMT
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Hi David, In lugnet.color, David Koudys wrote: > that this petition was from 'all' AFOL's (a problem with translation so we're > told now, and i haven't read the German one to see if the inference is there as > well) This sentence: "We, the signatories of this letter, form the group of Adult Fans Of LEGO® (AFOLs)." was translated from these german words: "Wir, die Unterzeichner dieses Briefes, sind überwiegend sogenannte AFOLs (Adult Fans Of LEGO®)," Translated word by word: "We, the undersigned, for the most part are so-called AFOLs (Adult Fans Of LEGO®)." Leg Godt, René

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		Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
(...) And THAT highlights why maybe this wasn't done quite correctly. Consider how things might have went if instead of posting what was apparently final text and asking for sigs, if it had went like this instead (everything posted to JUST color and (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)

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		Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
(...) Here is where I have the issue--to you it's the worst decision the company ever made. Along with the original letter inferring in the english translation that this petition was from 'all' AFOL's (a problem with translation so we're told now, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)

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