Flying Squid to Unpopular [email protected]English • 7 months agoThey're not "Minifigs," they're "Lego Men." Even the female ones. I feel very strongly about this.message-square76fedilinkarrow-up1141file-text
arrow-up1141message-squareThey're not "Minifigs," they're "Lego Men." Even the female ones. I feel very strongly about this.Flying Squid to Unpopular [email protected]English • 7 months agomessage-square76fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•7 months agoI feel like this would be a popular opinion amongst the Lemmy general demographic but then some psychopath below proved the opposite to be true. I find the use of “Legos” more triggering, the plural is Lego ffs.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoNo, that is equally abhorrent. It is a brand name, you don’t add anything to pluralise.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoRoombas Teslas Burger Kings Band-Aids I do agree that “Legos” is wrong, but it’s not because you don’t pluralize brand names in this way.
I feel like this would be a popular opinion amongst the Lemmy general demographic but then some psychopath below proved the opposite to be true.
I find the use of “Legos” more triggering, the plural is Lego ffs.
Wouldn’t you add an “e?”
Legoes
No, that is equally abhorrent. It is a brand name, you don’t add anything to pluralise.
Roombas
Teslas
Burger Kings
Band-Aids
I do agree that “Legos” is wrong, but it’s not because you don’t pluralize brand names in this way.