Elder Sign

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

[JollyBob]

I know I'm a little drunk on a Sunday afternoon, but that would be funny any time. 

Top find, Curtis. Always trust the Plumber - they know what's going on!

[Etranger]

Very well done. Great find! 

[myincubliss]

 

Also deeply amusing is:

[Alxbates]

 

Cthulhu Legos!

I love it! 

 

[Bako]

That's my kinda legos .

[Herr Direktor]

Loved Legos. Love Cthulhu. Now I want Cthulhu Legos .

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

The plural of Lego is Lego. You dont have "legos" you have "Lego" . As in "Im playing with some Lego" 

[Bako]

  I know, it's just more fun to say legos when everyone else is too. Speaking of which, I haven't added to my own collection since the lead plague overtook my wallet.

[answer_is_42]

The plural of Lego is Lego. You dont have "legos" you have "Lego" . As in "Im playing with some Lego" 

Well said! 'Legos' often infuriates me...

[twrchtrwyth]

 

[Argonor]

Well, here in DK it's common to hear people say 'I ate a hotdogs', 'I'd like a drinks', 'The rebels hit a tanks' and stuff like that... the purple being the actual UK/US phrase they use, rest of the sentence being Danish... And Danish kids actually use the Danish word 'Legoer' (-er being plural) whereas the proper plural used to be 'Legoklodser' (Lego-blocks) - but Lego nowadays is more or less making modelling kits instead of the classical blocks where you had to use your imagination......

And the corn snack 'Bugles' is most often pronounced 'buggles' by ignorant Danes.... Just to include something COMPLETELY different....

[Froggy the Great]

The plural of Lego is Lego. You dont have "legos" you have "Lego" . As in "Im playing with some Lego" 

Well said! 'Legos' often infuriates me...

YES!  YES!  I'm not the only one in the freekin' world that has it right!

[Dolmot]

Errr...no? The company, AFAIK, prefers "Lego bricks", which is much like "Lego brand bricks". "Lego" is a brand name, but the items themselves are simply "bricks", "minifigs" etc. This policy obviously exists to protect the trademark. Otherwise they might lose it like happened to Hoover vacuum cleaners, nowadays "hoovers".

That does not make "Lego" a mass noun, or even a common noun in the first place. They don't want it, because then it wouldn't be a fully protected trademark or a proper name any more. The only Lego you can buy is the whole product line, which will cost a few billions. A single brick is not a "Lego" with a capital L. It's a brick. Two bricks can be called "two Lego bricks" but not "two Lego" or "two Legos".

That's the official company policy. However, what people end up doing in real life is simply a matter of common speech and evolution of language. If "a lego" (with a lower case l) becomes a common noun (like "to google" became a verb), its plural can be anything. The easiest solution is to call them "legos", just like multiple vacuum cleaners are "hoovers".

If you want to disagree, please provide a link. Uninformed fanboy ramblings don't count.

Fascinating things these elder signs, I say.

[Argonor]

Ah, yes - bricks, of course... it's hot, and my brain is melting away (besides, I'm not used to Lego in foreign languages, Lego being a very Danish thingy...    )