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(...) LOL I always told Tim he looks like Timmy... but in that pic he also looks like a Mr Bean Relative :D Mel (and don't forget, Tim is a fan of Beaker and Dr. Bunsen ;) ) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Trademarks and misspellings... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
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(...) Actually, it has been more or less officially done. When Norway became an independent country, they tried to rid the Norwegian language of the influence from the two former mothercountries, Denmark and Sweden. This resulted in the constructed (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Trademarks and misspellings... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
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(...) I don't know that I'd call it horrific, but it's certainly in a class of its own. I have found that by trying to understand the etymology (1) of certain words you can actually grow fond of the bizarre ways in which they are spelt... or is it (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
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(...) In Portuguese it's a 1st person Present form of "to leave legacy" (as in a will, "I leave... to..."). Try to find LEGO-related websites in Portuguese to see what I'm talking about - about half the sites refer to legal talk over legacies :-/ (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
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(...) All true. And good to point out. I guess my point was to illustrate that the LEGO company name is one of those words you won't find in a standard English dictionary... for the reason that it's an obscure or otherwise unique word that could be (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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