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Re: LEGOZ 2000
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Date: 
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 17:01:28 GMT
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SANTOSH@STUDENT.UNSW.saynotospamEDU.AU
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)

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