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Re: SO WHAT LOGO AM I DESIGNING????
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lugnet.loc.au
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Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:13:49 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Braith Garden writes:
> > My only gripe with LegOz is that it sounds too close to Legoes/Legos/Legos'.I
> > never refer to Lego as "Legos". Appart from the "official" line from TLC • that
> > their product should not be reffered to as Legos but simply Lego-singular and
> > plural, it's always sounded wrong to me.
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> I see your point. But this depends on how you pronounce LegOz...
> Is it "Lego <break> Oz" or "Leg - Oz"? Unless you pronounce "Oz" to make it
> sound like "oats", neither way should be a problem...
> Usually, when combining words like that, it's best to pronounce them doubly
> (i.e. "Lego-Oz") so that both meanings are obvious from the name.
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> > (unless the only Oz you know
> > about has a yellow brick road and some wizard dude living there :)
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> :-)
> Until I started frequenting on lugnet, I didn't now that Aus = Oz... when I
> first saw "James from Oz" I thought he was talking about the yellow-brick-road
> country. (And hey, we have yellow bricks in lego - it made perfect sense! ;-)
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> -Shiri
That's true...I know alot of Americans who have no idea OZ = Australia....
considering they pronounce it Osstraylia...!!!
But I think all Aussies know we live in OZ...!!!
Kev.... : )
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| (...) Well, strictly speaking I'm Israeli... but that doesn't make it better ;-) Yep, we pronounce it Osstraliya.... enlighten me - how do you 'nounce it? -Shiri (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) I see your point. But this depends on how you pronounce LegOz... Is it "Lego <break> Oz" or "Leg - Oz"? Unless you pronounce "Oz" to make it sound like "oats", neither way should be a problem... Usually, when combining words like that, it's (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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