Mysterious 8,000 Piece Lego Box Confounds and Perplexes

[Arkfeller]

If only I had enough Lego to build that... well, a person can dream.

 

[Ghengis John]

I can open it.

*smashes it with a sword*

That's called The Alexandrian Method.

 

[tigermilk]

LEGO IS PLURAL. IT'S NOT 'LEGOS'.

This, please take the "s" and put it where it belongs, namely on the end of "math", it is "maths"!

 

[Johnny Impact]

That thing is made not of Legos but of pure awesome.

 

[WanderingFool]

Nooooo don't try and figure it out. You will unleash Pinhead.

Wasnt that a rubix cube?

Please tell me that was a joke. If not go watch the first one. Yeah I know it won't be as bright and shiny as the remakes of today. But dammit son get some culture

Do I need to start putting /sarcasm when I make a freaking joke?

 

[squid5580]

Nooooo don't try and figure it out. You will unleash Pinhead.

Wasnt that a rubix cube?

Please tell me that was a joke. If not go watch the first one. Yeah I know it won't be as bright and shiny as the remakes of today. But dammit son get some culture

Do I need to start putting /sarcasm when I make a freaking joke?

No but I guess I do. I thought the smiley would be enough.

 

[tehannihalator]

LEGO IS PLURAL. IT'S NOT 'LEGOS'.

American people you can misspell words like "color" but don't call lego "legos"!!!

 

[Jacob.pederson]

is there a video of this anywhere?

 

[BehattedWanderer]

I kinda want him to put the 2000 page manual available somewhere, with a parts list. 35 orders, a Herculean effort, a few hundred clams? That sounds all the worth it. Put it up, and put some recommended third party guys to buy from, and bam.

 

[Tom Goldman]

LEGO IS PLURAL. IT'S NOT 'LEGOS'.

It's a style thing we use, based on natural language. Many people say: "It's an 'X' built out of Legos"

 

[MrGalactus]

Woah. That almost as creepy and meticulous as that self-sustaining Sim-City.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I think it's an American thing, I could be wrong though.

It's an American thing alright, but not a willful one. By my understanding Lego have gone to great lengths over the years to divert the American urge to say sheeps, but always seem to fail. Nowadays they seem to just get it right in their own marketing and leave everyone 'knows better to cringe to the nails-on-a-chalk-board sensation of the unenlightened.

>.>

i understand the sheep thing, as it has more to do with the sentence structure rather than the word itself, but with "lego" it just doesn't make sense without an "s" to make it plural.

hey can you hand me that lego? (signifying a certain piece, i've heard and used that phrase more times than can count.)

do you wanna go play lego? (wtf. that doesn't make sense near at all when you say it out loud)

 

[Fensfield]

LEGO IS PLURAL. IT'S NOT 'LEGOS'.

It's a style thing we use, based on natural language. Many people say: "It's an 'X' built out of Legos"

i understand the sheep thing, as it has more to do with the sentence structure rather than the word itself, but with "lego" it just doesn't make sense without an "s" to make it plural.

hey can you hand me that lego? (signifying a certain piece, i've heard and used that phrase more times than can count.)

do you wanna go play lego? (wtf. that doesn't make sense near at all when you say it out loud)

Therein lies the flaw. They're not called Lego or Legos. They're Lego bricks. Lego is the brand name of a line of toy bricks and an adjective, and I have never in my life heard anyone use it as a noun in place of the word 'brick' outside when they're 'getting it wrong'.

I think that's where people stumble with it, they try to force it as a noun on its own rather than use the word 'brick'. Maybe it's because the word brick has acquired a few very, very minor negative connotations over the years or something, but really, god knows why people seem averse to using it.

"Hey, can you hand me that Lego brick?"

Lego as a noun for a line of toys, though? Sure:

"Do you want to go play with my Lego?"

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

LEGO IS PLURAL. IT'S NOT 'LEGOS'.

It's a style thing we use, based on natural language. Many people say: "It's an 'X' built out of Legos"

i understand the sheep thing, as it has more to do with the sentence structure rather than the word itself, but with "lego" it just doesn't make sense without an "s" to make it plural.

hey can you hand me that lego? (signifying a certain piece, i've heard and used that phrase more times than can count.)

do you wanna go play lego? (wtf. that doesn't make sense near at all when you say it out loud)

Therein lies the flaw. They're not called Lego or Legos. They're bricks. Lego is a brand name and an adjective, and I have never in my life heard anyone use it as a noun in place of the word 'brick' outside when they're 'getting it wrong'.

I think that's where people stumble with it, they try to use it as a noun on its own while everyone else realised it's an adjective for a type of toy brick.

"Hey, can you hand be that Lego brick?"

"Do you want to play with my Lego?"

i understand that, and yeah that makes perfect sense that it is an adjective, which i'm not denying, i'm just saying language evolves all the time (there are multiple cases in my head alone where i've heard both for tons of different cases such as my friend said to me the other day "can you hand me my nike's" (nike is a namebrand and an adjective, as you pointed out with legos) but at the same time i would argue for you that people don't say "can you hand me those reeses(es) on the table?"

it's wrong if you go by the exact dot of the rules of grammar/english,i'll admit, but i hardly know or see anyone actually do that,they just go with the more fluent choice mostly and i have never heard anyone misunderstand them by it so i don't really see the problem with it.

 

[Fensfield]

i understand that, and yeah that makes perfect sense that it is an adjective, which i'm not denying, i'm just saying language evolves all the time (there are multiple cases in my head alone where i've heard both for tons of different cases such as my friend said to me the other day "can you hand me my nike's" (nike is a namebrand and an adjective, as you pointed out with legos) but at the same time i would argue for you that people don't say "can you hand me those reeses(es) on the table?"

it's wrong if you go by the exact dot of the rules of grammar/english,i'll admit, but i hardly know or see anyone actually do that,they just go with the more fluent choice mostly and i have never heard anyone misunderstand them by it so i don't really see the problem with it.

As edited in above, I think the thing is, somewhere along the line, brick got enough of an imbalance of minor, negative connotations for people to feel the urge to try to force the brand name into its place when talking about something that generally evokes positive feelings. Technically speaking, it's wrong, but hey, such is the nature of slang, and that will always aggravate people - English students like me are particularly crotchety about such things.

Though, that said it seems a type of slang wholly native to America. I've never actually been present to witness first-hand a person say 'Legos'.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

i understand that, and yeah that makes perfect sense that it is an adjective, which i'm not denying, i'm just saying language evolves all the time (there are multiple cases in my head alone where i've heard both for tons of different cases such as my friend said to me the other day "can you hand me my nike's" (nike is a namebrand and an adjective, as you pointed out with legos) but at the same time i would argue for you that people don't say "can you hand me those reeses(es) on the table?"

it's wrong if you go by the exact dot of the rules of grammar/english,i'll admit, but i hardly know or see anyone actually do that,they just go with the more fluent choice mostly and i have never heard anyone misunderstand them by it so i don't really see the problem with it.

As edited in above, I think the thing is, somewhere along the line, brick got enough of an imbalance of minor, negative connotations for people to feel the urge to try to force the brand name into its place when talking about something generally seen in a positive light. Technically speaking, it's wrong, but hey, such is the nature of slang, and that will always aggravate people - English students like me are particularly crotchety about such things.

Though, that said it seems wholly native to America. I've never actually been present to witness first-hand a person say 'Legos'.

take no offense to this, as this isn't directly at you.

but you are the fucking bane of my existence. I hate anything that has to do anything with involving literature/english/arts/styles/etc...

those classes have always been the devil to me and they always will be, and I nearly always end up having a devil of a teacher which makes me hate it even more. I also hate having to be required to take them even though I am an engineering major, which has fucking nothing, nothing at all, to do with English, so no offense to you, but fuck that shit all to hell.

although i will agree on your thoughts on it, which make sense completely on how it came to be.

 

[ENKC]

Yes, but, but... WHY did he build it?

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Awesome, pure awesome. I'm sure the Riddler would approve.

[sub]Also "lol, language dispute."[/sub]