I've always called them Lego. Not Legos. Is that an American thing? (UK citizen here). Just curious.
In Australia it's definitely just Lego
What happened with LEGO
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Re: What happened with LEGO
#122Unfortunately, with the 3D printers on the raise, the faith of a LEGO(r) brick is doomed. In the near future, there will be printers especially designed to print small LEGO pieces. Of course none of those 3DP will market as "print your own LEGO bricks", but kids will figure this one quickly. It will work a bit like a baking machine. Turn it on, leave it overnight and bunch of blocks roll out when you wake up in the m…
Have you ever tried some of the competing brands - the quality is terrible!
Re: What happened with LEGO
#123Lego is now competing for attention with applications such as Minecraft. It will be interesting to see if pricing trends hold, or whether they attempt to preserve market share by cutting costs. Maybe Minecraft will start to move into the themed application market (Lego Star Wars, etc.).
My kids enjoy both!
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
But wouldn't different types of sand taken as a collection be "sands?" Just as many types of fish are fishes?
I'm not sure 'fishes' is valid (British) English either TBH, maybe it's a pointer to a more general rift between UK and US language use. The OED does list 'fishes', but I've never heard it used except in jest or by people trying to be cute. Lolcat speak :) We would say 'The sands of the sahara' and 'different types of sand' or 'different sands' sound equally valid.
See also formal versus notional agreement. British English tends to favor notional, prime example being sports commentary: "Liverpool are playing well" versus "Boston is playing well". Wikipedia highlights some other good examples: "The staff is busy" versus "The staff are busy", "The Rolling Stones are a classic band" versus "The Rolling Stones is a classic band".
The differences sound stilted if you're not used to them. Except, of course, when they're poetic: "Oliver's Army are on their way/Oliver's Army is here to stay".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_collective_nouns#Metony...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_di...
Re: What happened with LEGO
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#126I'll tell you what happened to LEGO. They stayed in business.
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#127Alternate hypothesis: pieces are getting smaller. Cost per piece looks like it's falling because we've gone from http://brickset.com/detail/?set=WEETABIX1-1 to http://brickset.com/detail/?set=10223-1
The article mentions this and also shows that cost per gram has gone down as well.
Smaller pieces are probably also more dense; less internal air.