 | | Re: Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?) —Leonard Hoffman
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| | | (...) DUDE! Do your lego research! 'LEGO' was originally derived by Ole Kirk Christianson as a contraction of the Danish phrase 'leg godt,' meaning, "play well." However, 'lego' is also latin for 'to put together.' <snip> (...) Actually, lego was (...) (21 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?) —Allan Bedford
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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 (...) (21 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?) —Pedro Silva
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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 :-/ (...) (21 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?) —David Gregory
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| | | | (...) Man, I had no idea anyone EVER took what I said seriously. : ) Just so everyone knows, whenever I post ANYTHING on the internet (here, there, anywhere), it's not meant to be taken too seriously. It's just the internet, and I've never met (...) (21 years ago, 25-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?) —Allan Bedford
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| | | | WARNING: Overly analytical and highly anal retentive reply follows. :) (...) I guess my honest and sincere response to that statement would be: Why wouldn't you expect to be taken seriously? If you reread your posting: (URL) much of the message you (...) (21 years ago, 26-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?) —Maggie Cambron
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| | | | (...) C'mon Allan, he calls himself "Fuzzy"-- how serious can he be? :-) Maggie C. (21 years ago, 26-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?) —Allan Bedford
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| | | | (...) I'm not sure what "lacking sharp distinctness or clarity" has to do with being serious or not. ;) Sincerely... but not seriously, Allan B. (21 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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