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Doesn't seem like an adjective to me. Seems like an old-fashioned compound noun to me. For example:
1. Pick up your lego bricks and put them away.
2. *These bricks a very lego.
3. *The older, primary-colored bricks are the most lego of all.
I have never heard anybody say anything but legos when referring to lego bricks. It's sounds as unnatural as saying "that is consistent with hoi polloi".
I do pity the poor folk who actually use the language though. If they shorten phrases, such as ice cream for iced cream or lengthen them, such as ATM machine or PIN number they are damned.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
Lego my Eggo!
formerly known as etaoin...
Quiescently frozen confection. Seriously.
Sure, third conjugation: first person singular active indicative. So the plural should be: legimus.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
Lego my Eggo!
Okay - "my Eggo!"
λέγω ότι εμόν ωόν-ω
You mean let go? Could you reveale the real meaning for the non latinists?
functioning as an adjective
Quote:functioning as an adjective
Doesn't seem like an adjective to me. Seems like an old-fashioned compound noun to me. For example:
There is a song by Chris Rea called "popsicle toes".
Compound noun or adjective, Zmjezhd.?
You mean let go? Could you reveale the real meaning for the non latinists?
Actually I'm a non-Latinist myself. I was referring to Greek.
As z* said, the "first person singular active indicative" (which is the usual lexical form) of the Greek word for 'to say' is lego(λέγω).
So Lego means simultaneously:
1. a brand of toy comprised of a number of components you put together to make something;
2. The Greek for "I say" and
3. Yes, it is also slang for "Let go," however, it would probably more often be spelled with a double 'g' - Leggo
So when I said "Lego - I say actually it's a verb!" I meant Lego is actually the verb "I say."
In my reply to etaoin, λέγω ότι εμόν ωόν-ω is "I say "my egg-o" which is what he asked me to say when he said "Lego my Eggo!"
I could also have said απόλυσω τόν ωόν-ω εμόν (apoluso ton Oon-O emon) which would be "Leggo my eggo"
hee hee this is fun
Oh and just to confuse things even more, we have a brand of pasta sauce here called Leggos.
Leggo's Authentico
You mean let go? Could you reveale the real meaning for the non latinists?
functioning as an adjective
Quote:functioning as an adjective
Doesn't seem like an adjective to me. Seems like an old-fashioned compound noun to me. For example:
There is a song by Chris Rea called "popsicle toes".
Compound noun or adjective, Zmjezhd.?
Just goes to show that the border between nouns and adjectives is fuzzy.
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