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
"we" is probably regional to some degree (state, whole of US, etc), because as someone from Sweden, it is never "legos"; similar to how you never say "sands" in English. One pile of sand and two piles of sand, you add sand to sand, and you get more sand, never sands. Similarly, it feels wrong (for me/us) to say LEGOs. No one ever says "LEGOs" here; only LEGO
Typical of language to diversify like this, though, and I would understand what someone meant if they said LEGOs, but it would definitely sound odd to me (sort of like how someone English speaking would feel upon hearing 'sands')
Sands is a word actually. It's a term referring to a vast area of sand. Usually like this "the sands of Arabia," "the sands of the beaches of the world," etc.
In your language, you may not say "Legos." In English, at least in our dialect, its definitely Legos.
Oh yeah, totally, I couldn't care less if someone calls it LEGO or LEGOs, to me it's all the same. Just pointing out that it just feels a bit odd, sort of like with "sands".
Cool, I thought "sands" might be used to reference to geographical areas (made another comment below in this chain), but wasn't entirely sure. Seen it used in some contexts.
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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