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Re: Lego pet peeve
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 13 Apr 2001 21:45:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Thomas Main writes:
> But some pet peeves:
> 5) Hearing the word "legos." I just don't like the sound of it...but I
> would not bring it my dislike of the word if someone said it to me (and
> they do all the time)
Hear, hear! "legos" really grates on the ears, and think we can draw
conclusions about people whose first language is English yet find themselves
incabable of capitalizing a varient of a proper noun. But "legos" isn't the
sort of thing to get one into a boiling homicidal rage. On the other hand,
"lego's". . . "lego's"? What the heck is that doing being used as a noun? I
know of no language on Earth (certainly not English) that uses an apostrophe
for anything but quoting, contractions, and possessives. Seeing that psuedo-
word is generally enough to make me not bother with whatever the writer has to
say (usually the description for an Ebay auction) at all.
TWS Garrison
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| (...) I guess I am a lot less particular about the condition of my Lego. I would never notice the difference between a brick dropped from a table onto a hardwood floor or one fresh out of the polybag. But some pet peeves: 1) DUST!!! Actually, I am (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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