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| (...) Add Turkish catalogs (published since 1984 or 1985) to the list. They are originally from TLC itself, since they always have a "Turkish as a second language" type of style. The usual warning messages on the boxes are started to be seen in (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| You are right, we are using latin alphabet right now (with the addition of some letters -ü, ç, ö, and two others that I can't represent here- and exclusive of q, w and x) since 1920's. Look at the 1985 Middle East catalog again: (URL) you can see (...) (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Does anyone know how many languages Lego has published at least one item in? All I know is that in the inside cover of Idea Book #260 the intro is given in 13 languages. Portugeuse, Dutch, Italian, Greek, English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Swedish, (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I don't know total numbers, but I've seen (and have in my possession) catalogs in hebrew. No idea books or instructions that I know of, though; and the catalogs might be translated by the store (named "Han toys") and not by TLC. (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The battery usage instructions on the 2nd page of the international version of 8480 were written in 19 languages. (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Selçuk Göre <ssgore@superonline.com> wrote in message news:38EEFE3C.F850C5...ine.com... (...) I don't have any idea of what Turkish looks like. What alphabet is used? Brickshelf Catalogue scans from 1984(cme) and 1985(cme) show what I thought to be (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Ka-On Lee <ko_lee@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Fu7sIp.6GG@lugnet.com... (...) intro (...) version of (...) Interesting, I wonder what the addional languages are? #8480 is from 1996? The Idea Book, from 1990, had flags denoting each language. I (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Fu7880.44u@lugnet.com... (...) translated (...) I would love to see a scan of a Lego catalogue in Hebrew. Your catalogues are most likely in Israel now? If you and your family go home for the (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Jenn and I scanned a catalog (I think the same one shiri is referring to) recently... At least I think we did. So it's either uploaded to brickshelf or on our home comp. I'll look for it tonight and see if I can upload it to my site as well. (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Actually, I have one of my catalogs here with me... but my scanner is part of an officejet, so it only scans individual pages (which means I'd have to rip it up to scan it :-/ ). Dan mentioned, I think, that he has the catalog as well... so if (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hi Shiri, When I have needed to scan catalogs or instructions ... I take the staples out of the center, scan the separate pages, and then reinsert the staples... Just a way I found that works John P.s. Love the work you and the others are (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) (URL) can only identify 5 and read 2 of them. (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, I can only read one, but I take a guess at the others. ;) Column one: English, German, French Column two: Italian, Dutch, Spanish Column three: Danish, Finnish, Swedish?, unknown, unknown, Russian?, Turkish?, unknown Column four: (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Agree (...) Agree (...) Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Greece, Turkish, Maltese/Maleisian ? (...) Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, last two I don't know (...) Sybrand (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The second last one is Korean. (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I don't think the last one is Hebrew, unless A) my eyes are really going or B) it's some weird font I'm unfamiliar with. Judging by the "TH" next to it, and the fact that the other languages around it are from the Far East, my stab in the dark (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Jeff Stembel wrote: some corrections and new guesses..:-) (...) Selçuk (25 years ago, 10-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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