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Re: Castle Accesseries for Knight's Kingdom
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 13 Oct 2000 22:09:55 GMT
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You also have to consider that most people just don't care.
If you go around correcting people, they're going to roll their eyes and
give you that look reserved for Trekkie conventions and people like me who
stood out in line all night for Star Wars tickets. ;^)
~Mark
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Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
> From: "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com>
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> I'm not disputing that. In fact, one of the first points in my original
> post was a recognition of the possibility of product dilution. Nor am I
> asserting "Legos" as the correct form; I'm simply saying that, if a person
> identifies a single brick as "a Lego," it is not incomprehensible that the
> same person would refer to several bricks as "Legos," considering that "S" is
> an adequate pluralization in countless other examples. Whether or not it's
> correct from a trademark standpoint isn't the issue; in common experience the
> false plural construction is adequately descriptive. The fact that it dilutes
> the trademark is unfortunate, but it happens nonetheless.
>
> Dave!
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| (...) Exactly. That was the initial motivation of my post. (...) Heh! You're right--even insofar as AFOLs already face a certain stigma, unfounded though it may be, the sort of pedantry we're describing stands out as somehow more extreme. Dave! (24 years ago, 14-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm not disputing that. In fact, one of the first points in my original post was a recognition of the possibility of product dilution. Nor am I asserting "Legos" as the correct form; I'm simply saying that, if a person identifies a single (...) (24 years ago, 13-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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