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Re: Futbol or Football?
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:34:10 GMT
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That's simply because Lego.com is essentially an American site, probably
maintained by American Lego personnel.
--
Paul Davidson
James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message
news:FntIC4.Mzv@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.general, Thomas Main writes:
> > I guess nobody here wants to enlighten me...I asked this question a
> > couple of months ago and I will ask again:
> >
> > Where are you guys seeing a reference to either the words "futbol" or
> > "football"...I have yet to see either word in a catalog or on the web
> > pages you point to...
> >
> > Am I blind?
>
> Nope. Just not looking carefully enough. ;) The hyperlinks on the System
> page of the catalogue all have an alt-text which appears if you don't load
> images or - if your browser supports it - when you move your mouse over • the
> icon. The icon in the lower-right has the alt-text of "Football"
>
> > > The hyperlink text for the football link at
> > >
> > > http://www.lego.com/catalog/eur/overview.asp?selection=system
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> HTH!
>
> James
> http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) That's actually quite the opposite of likely, in this case. If the site were Americacentric, it would say "Soccer". Over here, "Football" is a silly game played with pigskin, that has little to do with feet. :) James (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Nope. Just not looking carefully enough. ;) The hyperlinks on the System page of the catalogue all have an alt-text which appears if you don't load images or - if your browser supports it - when you move your mouse over the icon. The icon in (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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