Battle Over Blocks

RoscoHead writes: "S'pose you've already seen this over at Fast Company - a follow-up to their previous article by Charles Fishman. The follow-up includes comments from three different "users" of Lego - including Hemos, alias Jeff Bates, Slashdot's esteemed Lego guru..."

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Lego, not Legos

[Small Hairy Troll]

Why do most Americans insist on using 'Legos' as the plural form instead of the accepted 'Lego' ? I see most slashdotters get this one right (perhaps because the majority of the posters are European ?), the article got it wrong.

Do you say one sheep, many sheeps ? (It's sheep)
One cactus, many cactuses (It's cacti)
One mongoose many mongooses? (Actually this is correct. I bet many of you thought the plural form is mongeese)

Thanks for the free publicity

[perdida]

Every time one of you Geekizoid cunt rags flames adequacy.org, you give us free publicity.

Everybody keeps calling me anti-free-market because I'm a socialist, but you're the one wishing you could prevent me from offering a choice to people (the purpose of advertising).

I'm not spamming. I post here because it's fun! Like thousands of other slashdotters I put my site in my sig. I rarely link to the site in a post.

Adequacy is a good thing. It's well-read, controversial, funny, and infuriating. I am glad people have strong opinions about it. I'm damn lucky to be working with a brilliant group of people who

Re. using my talents for something else? I'm sending out 12-24 resumes a week. I'll let you know when I find something.

And, yes, go wank off to this post, you have trolled the troll. Because I will freely admit right now:

IHBT.