Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days agoThey're not "Minifigs," they're "Lego Men." Even the female ones. I feel very strongly about this.message-squaremessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down138file-text
arrow-up194arrow-down1message-squareThey're not "Minifigs," they're "Lego Men." Even the female ones. I feel very strongly about this.Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square79fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretheskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·29 days 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-squaretheskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·28 days agoNo, that is equally abhorrent. It is a brand name, you don’t add anything to pluralise.
minus-squarehikaru755@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·28 days 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.