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1. The plural of Lego is Lego.

2. You get a set with 1273 pieces. You find out there are only 1265 pieces. There is great sadness.

3. When you combine Yellow Tiger and Red Tiger and all their friends you get Voltron. You can play with friends and share, at the end of the day you uncombine and you each have a tiger. Much fun is had. With Lego if you combine Lord of the Rings and Spiderman much fun is had. When you try to uncombine you end up with a lot more red and blue in middle earth than there used to be.

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Addressing #1:

"Photoshop" is not a verb (and should be replaced with the equally-easy-to-say verb "enhance using Adobe® Photoshop® software") [1], but that doesn't stop people from using it as such anyway. The presence of an extra 's' doesn't impair meaning and focusing on it tends to be a distraction.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/trademarks.html#photo...

If you are doing a pitch, "Netflix for Octopusses" would make you look stupid. Grammar does matter, especially when you are trying to convince the world you aren't an idiot.

Octopuses is valid. As is octopodes, but octopi is a freak Greek-Latin hybrid by people trying to convince the world that they aren't idiots but is now also valid.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyY2mK8pxk

and yet "octopi" is the most euphonious of the three, and deserves to win for that alone if nothing else.

> If you are doing a pitch, "Netflix for Octopusses" would make you look stupid.

Only if your pitch target is stupid, because "Octopuses" is correct according to any English dictionary you'll find.

There's a point here somewhere about the dangers of hyper-prescriptive grammar.

> > If you are doing a pitch, "Netflix for Octopusses" would make you look stupid.

> Only if your pitch target is stupid, because "Octopuses" is correct according to any English dictionary you'll find.

"Octopusses" ≠ "Octopuses". Considering that the "Octopusses" line was in response to a post about the impact of an extra "s"...

Pretty sure it was just about incorrect pluralization.

How many S does mine have? How many does yours have?

Any story about Legos on the internet is required to include comments pointing out three facts:

1. Plural of Lego is Lego or Lego bricks

2. Kids in this day and age are lacking creativity because they never combine their Legos into a big box when they're done building the initial design

3. The makers of Legos demean girls by marketing girly sets to them.

LEGO used to have a large notice on their site, similar to that one:

“The word LEGO is a brand name, and is very special to all of us in the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our products as “LEGO bricks or toys” and not “LEGOS.” By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud, and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!”

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