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

I am probably an intellectual or something Suck it America

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u/animo2002 ☣️ Jul 30 '24

Its a name tho, so proper noun as well

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u/pc_player_yt Jul 30 '24

name as in Lego the company, like Facebook the app. The Lego pieces aren’t called Legos, like how the individual Facebook users aren’t called Facebooks

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u/dat_oracle Jul 30 '24

Doesn't work for Facebook, but that doesn't mean it can't work for LEGO. Everybody knows what you mean by I'll go buy some Legos.

Nobody really knows what "I'll text some facebooks" means - well, bc nobody is using such a phrase.

Mainly because Facebook has a variety of content and no single 'thing' that everyone could refer to.

LEGO tho, has practically just the bricks and parts that people like to put together. They don't sell milk, no cars, no snakes, no graffiti spray cans

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u/Pr0wzassin I am fucking hilarious Jul 30 '24

But why not say "I'll buy some Lego."?

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u/IamMythHunter E-vengers Jul 30 '24

Because that's not how the word evolved.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24 edited Jul 15 '25

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u/KingCaiser Jul 31 '24

People do say that all the time.