• jerkface@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    I find “LEGOs” very upsetting.

    Lego is not an acronym. It does not usually get all-caps in prose, though the all-caps logotype is sometimes imitated in text.

    Lego is a proper name, and is also used as a collective noun. It does not get pluralized.

    “You can’t play with Lego anymore.”

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      1 month ago

      fuck that. Lego is a company and I don’t need it to tell me how I can and cannot use their name. if they don’t like it they can suck my dick.

      I really don’t understand why there are so many people passionate about how to “properly” use The Trademark™ in The Way that was Sanctioned by The Corporation®

      just play with your Legos and get over it

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        1 month ago

        I assume the people are passionate about grammar, and their corrections have nothing to do with respecting trademarks.

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          1 month ago

          that’s even worse! especially because the vast majority of self proclaimed “grammar nazis” (really weird fucking title, guys) don’t know shit about linguistics as a science

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              1 month ago

              no, that’s Lagos. Legos is a principle of rhetoric along with pathos and ethos.

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                1 month ago

                Great, doesn’t change the fact nobody is passionate about protecting trademarks as you are saying.

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                  1 month ago

                  yes they are, because the word Legos has nothing to do with grammar

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                    So what? Them being wrong about grammar doesn’t change the fact they are speaking about grammar.