4x5 Camera...made of Lego

2F/2F · Apr 3, 2011

Steve Smith said:
In England we would (and do) say "a box of Lego" and "a camera made of Lego".

Another pluralisation I don't understand is where I might say "we have a long way to go", I sometimes see it written as ".....a ways to go". The a implies singular but ways is plural.

Steve.

It comes from the other use of the word Lego to mean a single Lego brick, not just the name of the product in general. If you say "a Lego" to mean a brick, then what do you call multiple bricks? Three Lego? Sounds completely weird to me. So it must be a U.S. vs. British English thing.

Steve Smith · Apr 3, 2011

2F/2F said:
If you say "a Lego" to mean a brick, then what do you call multiple bricks? Three Lego? Sounds completely weird to me. So it must be a U.S. vs. British English thing.

A Lego brick, some Lego, three Lego bricks.

Try it with something else. e.g. A Sony television, some Sony televisions, three Sony televisions.

I think the difference is that we do not call a single piece a Lego in the same way that we would not refer to a television as just a Sony.

All US vs. British English things are weird!

Steve.

Marco B · Apr 3, 2011

Waaaay cool! I also loved the fact that it turned out to be more advanced than I initially thought. I first assumed, when seeing the first image, that it would be a fixed focus thing, but instead, it has a focussing option and ground glass too... great!

Dan Henderson · Apr 3, 2011

This is a truly epic use of Lego(s). I am tempted to go buy some and build a pinhole camera. Leghole I guess it would be called.

Sirius Glass · Apr 3, 2011

2F/2F said:
It comes from the other use of the word Lego to mean a single Lego brick, not just the name of the product in general. If you say "a Lego" to mean a brick, then what do you call multiple bricks? Three Lego? Sounds completely weird to me. So it must be a U.S. vs. British English thing.

A sheep & three sheep
A moose & three moose
A deer & three deer
A martini & really plastered

Oh well, 2 young 2 drink 4 Roses!

Steve

4x5 Camera...made of Lego

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