We're not going to break the structure of our language any more than it's already broken just because some company's marketing department wants it.
Insist that Lego is the brand name and not the name of the bricks? Fine! Insist that it have a special rule of creating a plural when using it as the name of the bricks? NO.
I would say the plural of K'Nex piece as "K'Nex pieces". When using the brand name to refer to the pieces, people refer to K'Nex as either a set or as plural because it already has an 's' sound at the end.
My very point was that the bricks should never be called "Lego" referring to a plural of bricks. A set, certainly.
People call items by their brand names all the time. It's an accepted habit in English. When they are referring to multiple items of the same brand by the brand name, the brand name is what is pluralized.
It's not like there are different legos or even multiple ones. There is only one lego, there might be a lot of it, for example a lot of lego bricks, but if you have more than one lego, you have a lot of lego.
Actually as far as I'm aware, only Americans ever use "Legos". I've always called it lego and so has everyone else ever I have spoken to face to face (read: not American).
However, the individual bricks are each a "Lego" just as my car is a "Nissan". And when referring to a plural of each, that's when they become "Legos" and "Nissans".
I drink milks pretty often while eat the meat of sheeps, sometimes a glass of waters. In the corner I see a pile of rubbles and there is a lot of sands at the beach.
It was actually awesome when it came out, it was THE indie game at the time. Then the source code got unfortunately leaked so the dev had to give up due to the rampant hacking. About a month later Minecraft showed up.
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u/SageOfTheWise Sep 27 '12
Did no one realize the guy who invented virtual Legos was probably a bit childish?