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Law that would make mandatory the printing of words onto every manufactured lego blocks to inspire youngsters to read and write. Concept is effective because chains of words can be created in two if not three dimensions. Colors of lego pieces can correspond to verbs adjectives, nouns, etc.
Fridge Poetry
http://www.magneticpoetry.com/
Like this, only on the fridge. [up_on_cloud_nine, Dec 30 2008]
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I long for the old days when I didn't have to see words and printing on every single thing I looked at. Today you can't escape words as an adult but at least let kids have that luxury if they wish. [-] |
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I presume black would correspond to nuns? |
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Could we have pink for feminine nouns, blue for masculine and grey for neuter? Could we also have bound morphemes which change the colour somewhat when you attach them to a stem? |
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Remove "Law that would make mandatory..." and I'll change my bone to a bun. |
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Fuck the rorschach, can you pass the markov? |
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Ok,Ok, no mandatory law, but W would have loved to link Lego sales to his NO Child Left Behind Mandates. |
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Sod the little kiddies. I'd like to play with these! |
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Once at a house party I used every letter on the host's fridge to spell "Fun is whacking to Madonna" |
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// Remove "Law that would make mandatory...//
I agree with [phoenix]! anything that has to be mandatory sucks. |
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//Lego's already damned good at what it does// |
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It used to be, but recently it´s gone the way of
Meccano. Most Lego is sold in kit form to make
specific models and if you want generic bricks you
have to order them. It's OK to order things, but if
a child goes into a toy shop they will see the kits,
and their friends will be playing with them, so the
pressure is away from creativity and originality. |
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Hell in a handcart and all that. |
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How about a scrabble set with all blank tiles? |
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Actually, [boysparks], as i was typing that i did
wonder if it was just me. Maybe it´s the
provinces, but it´s definitely so here. It remains
the case that the kits are more prominent though,
surely? Interesting that you should say that about
non-verbal reasoning, because when i think about
certain linguistic things, it's often in visual terms
with not exactly lego brick-like objects but sort of
things which plug together, so if i do that, what
exactly is verbal reasoning? How far can non-
verbal reasoning be extended into what's seen as
verbal? |
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Hmmm, I have a younger sibling who is currently into the
'Bionicle' lego-thingies. I do agree with nineteenthly - there
really is one thing to be made, and I much prefer the older,
more creative lego that I used to (and still do) play with. |
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I notice that we cannt help but over-engineer everything (including toys) until the product defeats its original purpose. For instance quads and atvs have turned into the 4wd vehicles that carry them around to the places where they are used recreationally. Lego has evolved into the realm of specialization and out of the realm of creativity and flexibility. |
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Everything which could ever be made or invented
is already present all around us. We just need the
know-how. It may sometimes involve building a
vehicle which can travel somewhere else in the
Universe where, for example, we can stick a ring
of iron around a pulsar and generate electricity,
but the means are there. Homo erectus may have
picked up a flint and chipped a bit off it to make a
hand axe, but those materials plus a few other,
maybe locally available ones, could have been used
to make the latest PC motherboard. Lego was
similar.
I want people always to be able to
make a starship from the mud around them in
hitherto unimagined ways, and if the likes of Lego
gets customised, i fear that that ability will shrivel
up and drop off. |
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Yeaw, me too. It's kinda sad that, while scientists etc. are
making all these amazing inventions and discoveries, those
inventions are slowly causing us to devolve in terms of
imagination and creative ability because they do the thinking
for us. |
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