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LeoBartlet

LeoBartlet
Darth Ender said:
It's literally identical to the use of calling all plastic bags with a zip type closing mechanism "ziploc" or all plastic food storage, tupperwear etc. no difference at all.
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Wrong about bacon and wrong about lego.

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Darth Ender

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xzanfr said:
It still doesn't make grammatical sense to say legos.
Anyone who says it should be banned from ever being able to buy it.
They can stick to Athlon-uk's Rego...
...sorry, Regos.
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if i have a bunch of sharpie markers. The technically correct way to describe that is just as i did, sharpie markers. But calling them sharpies is far more common. And calling them sharpies even when they're not made by sharpie is common if they fit the look of sharpies.

that's what you have with lego - exactly. Whether it's right or wrong just depends on how common the usage ends up being in language. Corporations dont get to dictate such things. The speakers do.
 

LeoBartlet

LeoBartlet
Darth Ender said:
if i have a bunch of sharpie markers. The technically correct way to describe that is just as i did, sharpie markers. But calling them sharpies is far more common. And calling them sharpies even when they're not made by sharpie is common if they fit the look of sharpies.

that's what you have with lego - exactly. Whether it's right or wrong just depends on how common the usage ends up being in language. Corporations dont get to dictate such things. The speakers do.
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nemolomen

nemolomen
Darth Ender said:
if i have a bunch of sharpie markers. The technically correct way to describe that is just as i did, sharpie markers. But calling them sharpies is far more common. And calling them sharpies even when they're not made by sharpie is common if they fit the look of sharpies.

that's what you have with lego - exactly. Whether it's right or wrong just depends on how common the usage ends up being in language. Corporations dont get to dictate such things. The speakers do.
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Power to the pie hole?
 

Darth Ender

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Factabulous said:
This guy has won the forums - taking fdev to the Advertising Standards because he doesn't like the way the game's ads look https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...ghting-is-still-messed-up.590109/post-9619286

What a waste of fdevs time when they could be getting on with fixing the game ...

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Wouldn't fixing the game resolve the ASA complaint? or are we not considering the visual look and feel not living up to the promo material as a thing that needs to be fixed?

I'm not sure how they're mutually exclusive.
 

Darrack

Darrack
Darth Ender said:
Wouldn't fixing the game resolve the ASA complaint? or are we not considering the visual look and feel not living up to the promo material as a thing that needs to be fixed?

I'm not sure how they're mutually exclusive.
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Not a snowballs chance in Hell the ASA would uphold the complaint unless they prove that FDEV were intentionally misleading, which they obviously were not.
There isnt a game out there that havemt released a promo video that wasn't slightly tarted up, its like makeup sales reps Influencers or those misleading adverts that say anti-ageing cream works.

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Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
Darth Ender said:
Lego wants you to think that calling their stuff legos is grammatically incorrect because of trademark concerns. Like the name tupperwear and other brand names that became synonymous with the item type ... once a term becomes common-use the brand loses their trademark to it. They have to protect it and fight it to keep it.

Trying to hate on legos at the language level has nothing to do with them not being legos ...it's just a means of trying to convince society to not use their brand name to reference the general product that they're defacto known for representing.

They wont fool people though with their marketing brainwashing. It's a losing battle to villainize legos.
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That's interesting.
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
Factabulous said:
I think we're safe

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I wonder if they opted out of the email every time someone posts?
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I truly hope not. Especially if they have the preview function on too.

Darth Ender said:
It's literally identical to the use of calling all plastic bags with a zip type closing mechanism "ziploc" or all plastic food storage, tupperwear etc. no difference at all.
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Bags.

Darth Ender said:
if i have a bunch of sharpie markers. The technically correct way to describe that is just as i did, sharpie markers. But calling them sharpies is far more common. And calling them sharpies even when they're not made by sharpie is common if they fit the look of sharpies.

that's what you have with lego - exactly. Whether it's right or wrong just depends on how common the usage ends up being in language. Corporations dont get to dictate such things. The speakers do.
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Pens.
 
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