Lego Appreciation Thread (split off from Random Raves XLII)

[Snerk]

This thread was doing so well... until someone had to come along and use Lego in the plural. It doesn't have a plural form.

Lego is derived from the latin word legosentis. Which roughly translates squared block that fits in other squared block. Thus the plural of Lego is Legi.

 

[Sommerswerd]

This thread was doing so well... until someone had to come along and use Lego in the plural. It doesn't have a plural form.

I disagree.

Also, you missed the low hanging fruit... which is that I misspelled "LEGO" ... too late! So there

Lego is derived from the latin word legosentis. Which roughly translates squared block that fits in other squared block. Thus the plural of Lego is Legi.

I disagree. The Google on the internets machine says otherwise.

I admit that you suckered me into looking it up though

 

[Bugfatty300]

Seeing the spaceman in the lego movie with the exact same cracked helmet as mine had (apparently common a defect) was like therapy. So many memories came back.

 

[Kyriakos]

Lego is derived from the latin word legosentis. Which roughly translates squared block that fits in other squared block. Thus the plural of Lego is Legi.

Legi Romanum!

SPQR

 

[Gori the Grey]

I'm sorry yer Lego was boring

My Lego murdered each other for glory.

My favorite thing to build was a gun. 4 red 4x2s for the handle, a white 8x2 for the barrel and a yellow 2x2 for the trigger.

I'm sorry your imagination was murdered before it could come to full maturity. Sets, pah!

 

[Hygro]

My favorite thing to build was a gun. 4 red 4x2s for the handle, a white 8x2 for the barrel and a yellow 2x2 for the trigger.

I'm sorry your imagination was murdered before it could come to full maturity. Sets, pah!

I built guns out of Duplo, I moved on.

 

[Takhisis]

On legos and robotics, I was a participant in the first FIRST lego league competition. However my team wasn't first in the first FIRST lego league competition. We were doing pretty well but our robot started stopping short mysteriously from the intended target. We didn't realize we needed fresh batteries until we were eliminated (by a hair)

So functional Lego death robots are a real possibility. This is a most interesting development.

Lego is derived from the latin word legosentis. Which roughly translates squared block that fits in other squared block. Thus the plural of Lego is Legi.

That would be correct if it was from Italian.
If it was feminine (see legio) then the nominative plural would be legones.
If it was neuter the nominative plural would be lega.

What grammatical gender is the word Lego in Northern Danish, a.k.a. Norwegian?

 

[Snerk]

That would be correct if it was from Italian.
If it was feminine (see legio) then the nominative plural would be legones.
If it was neuter the nominative plural would be lega.

What grammatical gender is the word Lego in Northern Danish, a.k.a. Norwegian?

So you are saying that election winners Lega Nord are part of an ancient roman lego conspiracy cult? Italian politics is finally starting to make sense!

 

[Sommerswerd]

My favorite thing to build was a gun. 4 red 4x2s for the handle, a white 8x2 for the barrel and a yellow 2x2 for the trigger.

I'm sorry your imagination was murdered before it could come to full maturity. Sets, pah!

I used to build my lego people out of legos (take that @Arakhor)... A yellow (or black, or red cause there were no brown legos) 4x2 for the head, with an 8x2 for the top-hair for females and either two 2x2s or one 2x2 with another 4x2 for the length hair for the females... dudes were just bald (kinda like now). Then there was an 8x2 for the shoulders/chest with two 2x2s for the arms on either side, then a 4x2 for the torso/abdomen, another 4x2 for the legs... usually a different colour to signify pants and then finally a 6x2 or 8x2 for the feet.

It was a good system before I discovered the people aka "lego miniatures".

 

[FriendlyFire]

Lego is derived from the latin word legosentis. Which roughly translates squared block that fits in other squared block. Thus the plural of Lego is Legi.

I was certain lego is a German invention ?
A lot of the Central European lanugages are similar so it wouldnt suprise me if its orgins were Latin or Greek (the two main languages in antiquity)

The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932.[7][8] In 1934, his company came to be called "Lego", derived from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well".

1949 Lego began producing, among other new products, an early version of the now familiar interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks". These bricks were based in part on the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which were patented in the United Kingdom in 1939[10] and released in 1947. Lego modified the design of the Kiddicraft brick after examining a sample that they received from the supplier of an injection-molding machine that Lego purchased.[11] The bricks, originally manufactured from cellulose acetate,[12] were a development of the traditional stackable wooden blocks of the time.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego

 

[Arwon]

This thread was doing so well... until someone had to come along and use Lego in the plural. It doesn't have a plural form.

Man the first time I heard lego used as a count noun rather than an uncount noun I was spun out

 

[Hygro]

Little Legos and Big Legos in my household.

 

[Takhisis]

So you are saying that election winners Lega Nord are part of an ancient roman lego conspiracy cult? Italian politics is finally starting to make sense!

You see?

Alternate possible declension, 99.9% certain:
lego-legos|legon-legons
legor-legors|legorna-legornas

 

[sophie]

You see?

Alternate possible declension, 99.9% certain:
lego-legos|legon-legons
legor-legors|legorna-legornas

it's obviously a 3rd declension Latin:

lego, legonis (m.)

Which means the plural form is legones.

 

[Takhisis]

I already covered Italian and Latin in post #127. This was actually for Scandinavian languages.

 

[Hygro]

Legos Legos Legos Legos Legos Legos Legos Legos BATMAN!

 

[Takhisis]

You missed a few legos in there.

 

[Hygro]

Nope

 

[Sommerswerd]

You missed a few legos in there.

Well technically yeah... its the campy original song... there's 7 cycles of "Dunah Dunah Dunah Dunah" before you hear "Batman!"

Dunah Dunah Dunah Dunah... Dunah Dunah Dunah Dunah... Dunah Dunah Dunah Dunah...Dunah Dunah Dunah Dunah...Dunah Dunah Dunah Dunah...Dunah Dunah Dunah Dunah...Dunah Dunah Dunah Dunah...

Batman! Dunah Dunah Dunah Dunah
Batman! Dunah Dunah Dunah Dunah

 

[Thorgalaeg]

LEL...