 | | Re: Trademarks and misspellings... oh my! (WAS:Re: Where did the lego's go?)
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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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| | Brazilian firefighters save the world! :-)
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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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