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Re: While You Were Out on TLC ("LEGOS")
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:03:43 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Saying LEGOS (instead of LEGO brand building elements) shows lack of respect
> for the brand and the concept.
I'm NEVER going to say "Lego brand building elements" in casual
converstaion(beyond noting it as I just did). What the company has to do
legally and what some anal-retentive lawyer thinks I must do when talking about
it are two different things. A couple of other examples: I am NOT going to say
"Scrabble brand word game", I'm just going to say "Scrabble"; I am not going to
say AD&D™ because D&D was a name the fans gave it. I understand TSR (at the
time) wanting to protect themselves, and have no problem with it, but I'm just
not going to slap the ™ everywhere unless it is a formal setting. Besides, my
copy of D&D does NOT have either an AD&D or a ™ appended to the same.
I WILL say Lego, and not Legos, but that's as far as it goes.
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) I don't say that either, but I frequently say just "bricks". Or "I build with LEGO bricks." (...) Ahh... well I can't see those as good analogies, because TSR owned D&D at the time, you'd never said "let's play TSR!" And Scrabble is a game (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| (...) { "Natural" == "Correct" } == FALSE (...) Saying LEGOS (instead of LEGO brand building elements) shows lack of respect for the brand and the concept. Most mundanes could care less about the distinction (but not much less (1) ). Pointing it out (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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