http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/ Engadget Comments for Build your own Fullauto Bookscanner http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/The plural of Lego is Lego

(Lego Brand Toys)

Otherwise, you guys give a fun, interesting, and accurate poscast... it's kinda fun to listen to you guys in Beijing, my biggest source of english words to remind me of the NYC that I miss ;)]]>Feb 22nd 2006 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/
I quote...

Subject: 7) Plural of LEGO

While most people point out that they just say LEGOs,
lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex) dug out:

One catalogue, dated 1980, has the following on its back page:

Dear Parents and Children
The word LEGO(R) 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 bricks
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!

Susan Williams
Consumer Services (Susan's name is a
pseudonym for the service dptmt.)

Matthew Miller, mattdm@mattdm.org, added:
The above quote from the catalog is often cited as evidence for "Lego"
as the proper plural, but in fact that is misreading it. Trademark law
in the US at least is easiest if the trademark is used as an
_adjective_. The point they're trying to make is that you should say
"LEGO Bricks", rather than calling the product itself either "Legos"
_or_ "Lego".

In fact, they seem to assume that "LEGOS" is the natural plural, since
that's the only one they bother to correct. So, in formal usage, both
"Lego" and "Legos" are wrong. To me, that means people shouldn't make
such a big deal about it in informal use!

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/LEGO-faq/]]>Nov 27th 2007 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 22nd 2006 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 22nd 2006 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/
yes, even with Half.com]]>Feb 22nd 2006 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 22nd 2006 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 22nd 2006 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Now if somebody can finally develop some RELIABLE ocr software, they might actually have something useful.]]>Feb 22nd 2006 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/
Anyway, that's a really good invention. That would be extremely cool to own.

[AND THEN YOU GET SUED!!!111oneoneone]]]>Feb 22nd 2006 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 22nd 2006 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 22nd 2006 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 22nd 2006 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 22nd 2006 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 22nd 2006 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 22nd 2006 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 23rd 2006 12:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/
Just in case:
http://www.geocities.jp/takascience/lego/fabs_en.html]]>Feb 23rd 2006 1:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 23rd 2006 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/
don't need no lawyer if you don't walk around the street and tell everyone and their mother you scanned the book.]]>Feb 23rd 2006 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/This would indicate that it is short for Lego bricks, or Lego parts etc.]]>Feb 23rd 2006 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/
Lego themselves state that "Legos" is incorrect. End of story.
]]>Feb 23rd 2006 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Nov 16th 2007 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Feb 23rd 2006 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/Unless you think that people in Beijing is part of Japan. LOL.]]>Feb 24th 2006 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/build-your-own-fullauto-bookscanner/
Unless the parser in MY brain is broken and I read he post wrong.]]>Nov 13th 2007 5:38PM