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Originally Posted by pzkpfw
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I'm trying to care... really... but in my entire life I have never encountered anyone who knew about or recognized this trivial distinction. As you will see, almost everyone on this thread has referred to more than one Lego as Legos. Yes, we know now it is incorrect, and we'll have to e-mail school teachers across the country to correct this and put an end to it once and for all, but I think we'll need a generation or two before the slang passes out of existence. Perhaps my grandchildren will read old writing from these days and smirk at our ignorance.
I also may have decided to attempt to modify my behavior had you not taken the approach of correcting me the way you did. Had you posted something, to nobody in particular, a "Here's an interesting bit of trivia..." and pointed it out I may have thought "Oh, I've been wrong about this my whole life. Everyone I've ever known has been wrong about this my whole life. I don't like being wrong, so I'll try to correct it". But now I feel a strange compulsion to call them Legos forever. It will make me feel rebellious... maybe I'll go buy a motorcycle too.
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Born to be wild