• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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      2 days ago

      I will call them Legos till the day I die, like everyone I know has for 50 years.

      I never heard them called “Lego” until the last few years. So its like kleanex and xerox

      Legos legos legos legos legos legos

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      2 days ago

      If I see more than one thing, I put an “s” at the end of it.

      I don’t support Lego tryin to be like “sheep” and “deer.” 🙄

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        2 days ago

        I think the difference is the perception of whether a piece of Lego is “a Lego”; in Europe, that’s typically not the way the word is used.

        I started writing a rebuttal that amused me until I noticed I’d misread your comment, and I don’t want to delete it, so despite being irrelevant to what you’ve said…

        How many super glues do you use for a repair? Do you play on an astroturfs field? Are people carrying maces in their bag for self-defence? Do you eat Jell-Os and burn kerosenes?

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          How many super glues do you use for a repair? Do you play on an astroturfs field? Are people carrying maces in their bag for self-defence? Do you eat Jell-Os and burn kerosenes?

          All but one of those examples you mentioned are liquid, so they kinda don’t fit into this question 🤷🏼‍♀️ because we would say “a bottle of glue” or “a can of Mace” or “a bowl of jello” or “a can of kerosene.” I don’t even want to contemplate AstroTurf /astroturfs, it bugs me 🤣

          I think the Lego/Legos debate is similar to the GIF/“JIF” debate.

          One just seems intuitively correct tothe majority of people without overthinking it, and the other sounds & feels wrong.