• Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
      302·
      2 months ago

      It’s for their safety. At that age the might build a sentient robot that votes for Trump who will then take away their social security. Thank you Lego, for responsible toy stewartship.

    • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.ukEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Probably not, cause they’ll make some decent sets and then send then send them to a random Walmart in bumfuck Idaho and nowhere else, unless you want to pay 4x the price on Amazon.

      Honestly I think Mattel don’t want to be in the brick business sometimes.

  • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
    4017·
    2 months ago

    I find “LEGOs” very upsetting.

    Lego is not an acronym. It does not usually get all-caps in prose, though the all-caps logotype is sometimes imitated in text.

    Lego is a proper name, and is also used as a collective noun. It does not get pluralized.

    “You can’t play with Lego anymore.”

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      2510·
      2 months ago

      fuck that. Lego is a company and I don’t need it to tell me how I can and cannot use their name. if they don’t like it they can suck my dick.

      I really don’t understand why there are so many people passionate about how to “properly” use The Trademark™ in The Way that was Sanctioned by The Corporation®

      just play with your Legos and get over it

      • dev_null@lemmy.ml
        161·
        2 months ago

        I assume the people are passionate about grammar, and their corrections have nothing to do with respecting trademarks.

      • Emerald@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        I really don’t understand why there are so many people passionate about how to “properly” use The Trademark™ in The Way that was Sanctioned by The Corporation®

        Actually, they are advocating against using it how the Lego company does. The Lego company uses LEGO in all caps.

        • pyre@lemmy.world
          41·
          2 months ago

          I’m pretty sure the reason Lego isn’t supposed to be used is because they don’t want the trademark to be genericized. the all caps thing is stylization, I doubt they give a shit if you type it all caps or not.

      • MonkeMischief
        31·
        2 months ago

        Brought to you by the folks behind “Get Off That Nintendo and Go Outside” while you were PC gaming. Lol :p

    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
      104·
      2 months ago

      LEGO is too an acronym. it stands for Leg Godt, Danish for “play well”

          • Bassman1805@lemmy.world
            14·
            2 months ago

            It’s an abbreviation.

            Not all abbreviations are acronyms, only the ones that take the first letter from each word. Lego takes two letters from each word, so it’s not an acronym.

            On a similar note, some but not all acronyms are initialisms, if they’re spoken as the letters rather than the “word” they create.

            FYI, DIY, PS are all initialisms, and also acronyms, and also abbreviations. ASAP, SCUBA, and LASER are acronyms and abbreviations, but not initialisms. Lego, appt, and st are all abbreviations but neither acronyms nor initialisms.

            • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
              31·
              2 months ago

              why is english like this… we just call it “shortening”.

                • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
                  4·
                  2 months ago

                  in my language we tend to use base words to broadly describe concepts, and combinations of words for more accuracy.

            • RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              I think the “correct” usage of acronym is only when it is spoken as a word. But language evolves and all that.

              You can see the tension in the way MW defines it (including the extended description). Like: here’s the definition of the word, but some people use it when they actually mean initialism. This is in contrast to your more concise and cohesive definition of “[abbreviations] that take the first letter from each word”. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym

            • pyre@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 months ago

              I always thought acronym is a subset of initialism, not the other way around.

            • MonkeMischief
              1·
              2 months ago

              That’s a really good breakdown of the differences!

              Now if you’ll excuse me I have a few Ell-Ee-Gee-Oh sets to put together. :p

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      In my word, you put Lego Men in your Lego creations. No LEGOs, no minifigs [the Lego Men that are female are Lady Lego Men], and no sets.

      The whole ‘you make the rules’ aspect of the toy has been lost in a dozen licensing agreements.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 months ago

      Jeez. Even my dog who loved her Koosh ball was only 98 in dog years when she died. They’re apparently making them for tortoises.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 months ago

    There is actually an official clarification from LEGO that the 99 years is definitely not a hard upper limit.

  • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    2 months ago

    Over a 100 years old, you can do whatever the fuck you want. You’re gonna throw him in jail? He doesn’t even know if he’ll live for another hour.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I’m certain that Jimmy Carter has every reason to be satisfied with the amount he’s built.