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DUDE! I totally agree with you on the whole phonetic-spelling-is-better thing. I know that English has the most horrific spelling of any language on the planet, but if people are writing in that language, then they should spell the words right. (...) (22 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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(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Trademarks and misspellings.... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
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(...) Like 'LEGO'? ;) Is it misspelled or just invented? Either way, it's not a word that's likely to be recognized by many scholars as being spelled correctly. (...) Actually, there's a very serious reason why companies purposely misspell words (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Tim Deering=Timmy (wasRe: Hello)
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(...) (URL) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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From Folha de São Paulo: (URL) translation, for your convenience: ****** Firemen of the River capture the jibóias "Bush" and "Saddam" of the France Presse , in the River The firemen of Rio De Janeiro had today announced the capture of the jibóias (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) -JHK (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This might be of similar usefulness to you: (URL) allows you to set a wide range of search parameters, and you don't generally need to use quotes. Dave! (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Oh man, I don't think I've ever been able to turn off "I'll Melt w/You". It's just one of those high school tunes I could never get enough of and yet never owned. (Oh yeah, I'm a dorkus...:P) As for using a search engine it might also be helpful to (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Thank you to everyone who replied so far to this thread. I was unaware that placing quotes around a Google search query would turn up such significantly different results. That was beautiful! :) For those who seemed curious, I have quite a list of (...) (22 years ago, 18-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) As others have mentioned, this isn't a new problem. Another source that works is if your local music store has good employees, they will often recognize the song. Frank (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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