Well why not have a conniption fit about it? The fact remains that they are identified by my 4 year old son as Legos when there is more than one. Never mind that he also eats 'Cocoa Pops' for breakfast, has a toy set of 'handpuffs' and plays 'Pretendo' games.
This is a case of a language term being absorbed into English, as many other languages have been before. The first thing that's done is to create for nouns singular and plural forms that roughly match the language's style. In English, this is to pluralize a noun by putting an S after it. Millions of speakers of the language will pluralize the noun in this way until only a few throwbacks are left running around insisting that it's not so. In this way the language continues to change. It doesn't matter what the correct usage _was_. The correct usage _now_ in English will be to say for more than one lego, legos.
Usage is defined by the users of the language, not by the originators. I figure in a forum such as/. this view would be readily appreciated.
I think it's just a matter of perspective. I can't get Linux to boot up on any number of pc's here at my desk. But I can put two win machines together in my sleep. Workgroup, domain, whatever. Never had a problem.
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Well why not have a conniption fit about it? The fact remains that they are identified by my 4 year old son as Legos when there is more than one. Never mind that he also eats 'Cocoa Pops' for breakfast, has a toy set of 'handpuffs' and plays 'Pretendo' games.
/. this view would be readily appreciated.
This is a case of a language term being absorbed into English, as many other languages have been before. The first thing that's done is to create for nouns singular and plural forms that roughly match the language's style. In English, this is to pluralize a noun by putting an S after it. Millions of speakers of the language will pluralize the noun in this way until only a few throwbacks are left running around insisting that it's not so. In this way the language continues to change. It doesn't matter what the correct usage _was_. The correct usage _now_ in English will be to say for more than one lego, legos.
Usage is defined by the users of the language, not by the originators. I figure in a forum such as
Geez. Helps to know what you're doing.
I think it's just a matter of perspective. I can't get Linux to boot up on any number of pc's here at my desk. But I can put two win machines together in my sleep. Workgroup, domain, whatever. Never had a problem.