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guess I'll just play with my nuts
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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."
Lego deez nuts ha gottem
Hmm. Sorry bout that. What were we talking about?
Lmao Legos adults
Lego my eggo
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
I assume the people are passionate about grammar, and their corrections have nothing to do with respecting trademarks.
Legos is grammatically correct.
No, that's Lego. Legos is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.
no, that's Lagos. Legos is a principle of rhetoric along with pathos and ethos.
Which should be your original comment instead of the trademark thing.
no, I don't care if it's grammatically correct.
Great, doesn't change the fact nobody is passionate about protecting trademarks as you are saying.
yes they are, because the word Legos has nothing to do with grammar
So what? Them being wrong about grammar doesn't change the fact they are speaking about grammar.
no they aren't. they're talking about a trademark.
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
obligatory Mitchell and Webb https://youtu.be/qmVnr7rsWrE
Actually, they are advocating against using it how the Lego company does. The Lego company uses LEGO in all caps.
I'm pretty sure the reason Lego isn't supposed to be used is because they don't want the trademark to be genericized. the all caps thing is stylization, I doubt they give a shit if you type it all caps or not.
Brought to you by the folks behind "Get Off That Nintendo and Go Outside" while you were PC gaming. Lol :p
LEGO is too an acronym. it stands for Leg Godt, Danish for "play well"
That's...not an acronym. That'd just be LG.
what is it then?
It's an abbreviation.
Not all abbreviations are acronyms, only the ones that take the first letter from each word. Lego takes two letters from each word, so it's not an acronym.
On a similar note, some but not all acronyms are initialisms, if they're spoken as the letters rather than the "word" they create.
FYI, DIY, PS are all initialisms, and also acronyms, and also abbreviations. ASAP, SCUBA, and LASER are acronyms and abbreviations, but not initialisms. Lego, appt, and st are all abbreviations but neither acronyms nor initialisms.
I always thought acronym is a subset of initialism, not the other way around.
That's a really good breakdown of the differences!
Now if you'll excuse me I have a few Ell-Ee-Gee-Oh sets to put together. :p
I think the "correct" usage of acronym is only when it is spoken as a word. But language evolves and all that.
You can see the tension in the way MW defines it (including the extended description). Like: here's the definition of the word, but some people use it when they actually mean initialism. This is in contrast to your more concise and cohesive definition of "[abbreviations] that take the first letter from each word". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym
why is english like this... we just call it "shortening".
Why does a language have different words for different concepts?
in my language we tend to use base words to broadly describe concepts, and combinations of words for more accuracy.
It's actually an angry shout
Jackal.
Language is flexible. Deal with it.
You called down the ire of practitioners of the dark arts known as prescriptivism.