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Re: No W
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 18 May 1999 06:50:06 GMT
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Don't laugh, it might be true.
-- Terry K --
On Tue, 18 May 1999 03:07:54 GMT, "John Matthews" <jmatthew@columbus.rr.com>
wrote:
> <giggle>
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> thanks Terry
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>
> Terry K <legoverse@geocities.com> wrote in message
> news:3740a50a.2312478@lugnet.com...
> > On Mon, 17 May 1999 16:51:07 GMT, Thomas Main <main@appstate.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > I was looking through the 226 Idea Book from 1982 the other day and
> > > noticed something odd. There is a page which suggests making letters
> > > and numbers from Lego bricks. On two different examples the "W" is left
> > > out. Possible explanations:
> > >
> > > There is no "W" in the Danish alphabet.
> > > The "W" is too wide to model in Lego.
> > > The "W" was the first letter to disappear from the minifig alphabet.
> > > Subsequent generations dropped more and more letters, causing the
> > > keyboard of today to have so few letters.
> >
> > Exactly. As the town-juniorization of Lego continues, more letters will • be
> > dropped from keyboards until, finally, all that is left is a space bar.
> >
> > -- Terry K --
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| <giggle> thanks Terry Terry K <legoverse@geocities.com> wrote in message news:3740a50a.231247...net.com... (...) be (...) (27 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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