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

I am probably an intellectual or something Suck it America

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u/VagaBond_rfC Jul 30 '24

LEGO is an association of the words "leg" and "godt", which directly translates to the words "play" and "well". Therefore, it is LEGO and not Legos as is often referred.

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u/Physical-Departure-4 Jul 30 '24

Yeah, I’m not letting a Danish company tell me how the English language works.

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u/flamingo_flimango Jul 30 '24

But it's not english

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u/AaronsAaAardvarks Jul 30 '24

But it is. Look at the tweet. It's in English. Perhaps in other languages it's Lego, but in English it's perfectly correct to say Legos. 

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u/flamingo_flimango Jul 30 '24

If Lego is a contraction of "leg" and "godt", Lego technically isn't english.

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u/AaronsAaAardvarks Jul 30 '24

But thats how language works. Words get taken from other languages and change. Then it's a matter of how they're commonly used. Legos is the plural form of the word in English. It's not up to the creator to dictate it's use. Google is a verb.

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u/Oddah Jul 30 '24

First part is true, last part is not. The post is literally about how its not LEGOs as it doesnt really make sense

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u/casualbrowser321 Jul 30 '24

If we treated loanwords with the same rules as their origin language, we'd say "pizze" instead of "pizzas" and not pluralize Japanese words like "futon" or "tsunami".

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u/flamingo_flimango Jul 30 '24

But Lego isn't a noun.

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u/casualbrowser321 Jul 30 '24

Even parts of speech aren't set in stone, for loanwords as well as native words.
"Share" and "Weird" were originally nouns, and the verb/adjective was derived from there.