r/dankmemes • u/only777 ☣️ • Jul 30 '24

I am probably an intellectual or something Suck it America

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u/fizzdeff Jul 30 '24

I have never heard people in New Zealand calling them Legos. It's just Lego.

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u/TrannosaurusRegina Jul 30 '24

Kiwis are smart enough to understand mass nouns apparently!

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u/GeorgiaRedClay56 Jul 30 '24

I think of it like fish versus fishes. A bunch of 2x4 bricks are Lego, but a bunch of different pieces with different shapes are Legos.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24

The closest analogue to Lego pieces would be bricks.

Do Kiwis say "There's a pile of bricks over there," or "There's a pile of brick over there"?

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u/Oppopity Jul 30 '24

Lego is merely a concept to describe branded items that interlock with one another, typically "bricks" but there are other pieces that don't resemble traditional bricks.

One cannot simply hold an individual lego in their hand. They can only hold a piece of lego, or a lego brick. But a lego does not exist, only the lego.

Therefore, lego.

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u/RetroGamer87 Jul 30 '24

Their favourite animal is a mass noun