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Re: Oh no, what have I done!?!?
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:11:14 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ronald Vallenduuk writes:
> At this end of the world I don't know ANYONE that refers to LEGO bricks as
> Legos. Might be a language thing, but still.... people here refer to them as
> Lego, or 'Lego stenen' which literally means Lego bricks....
I guess it is a language thing. 'LEGO' already sounds like a proper plural
word in Dutch. In Dutch 'LEGOs' just doesn't sound right, I guess similar to
the word english word 'deer' (I can't really tell but I guess native english
speakers can tell if the word 'deers' would sound weird or not).
In fact, for the Dutch, it's harder to use the word 'LEGO' for a single
brick ("een lego"?) and therefore usually a single LEGO element is referred
to as "brick" (steen) instead of by its' brand name.
-Frank
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| At this end of the world I don't know ANYONE that refers to LEGO bricks as Legos. Might be a language thing, but still.... people here refer to them as Lego, or 'Lego stenen' which literally means Lego bricks.... Duq "David Simmons" (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)
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