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Re: LEGOZ 2000
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Date: 
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:01:28 GMT
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Todd,

I'd guess that'd it'd be pronounced Lego-Oz..like Wizard of Oz.

Then again we could say "Blocks Down under". But that's just plain
silly.

As for your $0.02 worth, considering what we pay for lego here, tax,
plus shipping out this far. Your 2 cents worth might cost us near $40.

One of these days ey....

Cheers
Santosh

P.S. Quite impressed that Todd was scanning this message thread. Do you
read everything that goes up?



Todd Lehman wrote:
> 
> In lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd, James Howse writes:
> > [...]
> > P.S. If anyone has a better name for the group than LegOz I'd be very
> > happy to hear it!
> 
> I don't live in Australia, so my opinion obviously doesn't count, but one
> I might suggest thinking about is how "LegOz" would be pronounced.  If it
> comes out sounding like "legos," then it's being (IMHO) disrespectful to
> LEGO, since they specifically ask people not to call their product "legos,"
> and making an association like that seems a bit flippant to me.
> 
> On ther other hand, there's Markus Noga's legOS operating system for the RCX
> brick...
> 
>    http://www.noga.de/legOS/
> 
> ...but actually, in that case, it's probably not problematic since OS (which
> stands for Operating System) is always pronounced "oh ess" and never "ahss"
> -- so people say "leg oh ess" and not "leg ohz" or "leg ohss."
> 
> Just my $0.02...
> 
> --Todd



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(...) I don't live in Australia, so my opinion obviously doesn't count, but one I might suggest thinking about is how "LegOz" would be pronounced. If it comes out sounding like "legos," then it's being (IMHO) disrespectful to LEGO, since they (...) (27 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)

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