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31st March 2021, 19:54 | #311 | |
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just b/c lego has OTHER meanings based on their various lines, doesn't mean that the original usage FOR THE BASIC BRICK needs to have an improper plural. even for your mattel example, if you were talking about asst items made by them, u WOULD say "several mattels". unlike lego, however, i am unaware of anything they make being called "a piece of mattel" to begin with. it still boils down to "one lego, many lego". that rly sound ok to u?? |
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Once every 500 years the magnetic poles of our planet switch position when charged particles in the atmosphere start sinking over the north and south poles. weatherzone .com.au/news/pole-flip-puts-down-under-on-top-/533815 |
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I depends on what one is talking about; if referring to Lego bricks, then it should be "one Lego brick, many Lego bricks"...
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I'm surprised that automobiles aren't known as 'fords' and chewing gum as 'wrigleys'. Hmm. Maybe I have heard 'take the ford' and 'gimme a wrigley' out the mouths of US-ers Quote:
Adding 's' is a US idiosyncracy and not what LEGO themselves suggest. It's okay that you don't get it. It's okay that you don't want to change. But as Meyers accepts - you are wrong :P
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the use of lego as an ADJECTIVE has no bearing whatsoever on what the plural of the NOUN would be. "i have many lego" or "i have many legos" -- those are your two choices. and to be fair, meyer kind of sidesteps the issue similarly. "clean up your lego" could be taken as a COLLECTIVE. in the same way as one would say "i own lots of gucci". that is not a plural at all. let him make the same speech with an ACTUAL plural, i.e. something involving "5 or 6 lego" or "many lego". i trust he may double down on his unwillingness to go along with that. hey, i know, the US and UK differ on some plurals -- "math(s)" and "sport(s)" being the obvious ones. so, ok, just confirm that "i have many lego" is correct britlish, i will accept that. but 9000 detours about OTHER constructs using the term "lego" have no bearing. ditto re: the company position. all the examples cited so far are for the ADJ form. i've yet to see them weigh in on what some "plural" would be, since they seem to be discouraging use of the singular noun to begin with. got it? now pass the kre-o's. |
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Comes back to find all the Lego bricks have been put away in the toybox, while all the Lego doors, windows, wheels, etc are still strewn on the floor. But Ma: I did as you said: Lego means bricks...
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"all that xxx" is singular.
"all those xxx" is plural. next! Quote:
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lego is cool & great plaything... just like pepo. rule#1 - pepo is singular. never plural. you got one pepo only. lego is one brand only. if you lucky enough to get another pepo then you got 2 pepos. pepo never said rule makes sense. But its a rule. So, 1 lego is lego, 2 lego is 2 legos. See? even 1 pepo is pepo-pepo but only on PS becuz some jerk said he was pepo before pepo but 2 lego cant be lego-lego. rule#2 - pepo is never capitalised. plus, pepo come from Europe & now is in USA so not only is pepo never capitalised, pepo is never capitaliZed. Get with America, Europe! (sorry, Dr.No, pepo got political .) Therefore, Legos can be lego if you are not talking to Mr. Lego. Of course, a Mega block isnt a lego, just like pepo can not be a pega. Dont make that mistake. rule#3 - see rule#4. (pepo never saw Fight Club so don't know what this means.)
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my uncle (WWII alum) was rly shocked at seeing the japanese emperor paraded around in a rolls. he insisted "you would NEVER see a US president in a foreign car".
not sure how true that was. maybe not an erst-AXIS car (merc, VW, nissan....), but a rolls?! rolls has long been the default of the elite, here as anywhere else. "not for a politician", he would counter. "GM would crucify him". i wonder if this still holds. |
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yahoo.com JEFF MARTIN April 1, 2021 MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A global company has stepped in to solve quite a “coinundrum” for a Georgia man. Andreas Flaten’s former employer dumped at least 90,000 pennies on his driveway last month as a form of final payment for his work at an auto shop, he said. When Bellevue, Washington-based Coinstar heard about his predicament, they decided that change was needed. They picked up Flaten’s coins on Thursday and rounded up the amount to give him a $1,000 check. They also made donations to two charities of Flaten’s choosing: two animal shelters. “Coinstar has been in the coin business for 30 years and we process approximately 41 billion coins annually – so picking up 91,000 pennies was all in a day’s work,” Coinstar CEO Jim Gaherity said in a statement. Flaten said his former employer — A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City — owed him $915 after he left his job there in November. He finally got his pay earlier this month in the form of thousands of oil- or grease-covered pennies dumped at the end of his driveway in Fayetteville, Georgia. Atop the pile: an envelope with Flaten’s final paystub and a goodbye note that featured an obscenity. Flaten had been spending an hour or two every night trying to clean the pennies, which he stored in a wheelbarrow in his garage. The owner of the shop, Miles Walker, told WGCL-TV that he didn’t know if he did or didn’t drop the pennies off at Flaten’s house. “I don’t really remember,” Walker said. “It doesn’t matter. He got paid, that’s all that matters.” |
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