The plural is "Chinese Cartoons" duh
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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Go play with your Legos, child.
Ahem… Lego bricks or Lego sets
Excuse me, is that linguistic prescriptivism?
Worse: corporate prescriptivism.
Listen here, Zac. The meme is addressed to "Mom", a representative parental figure of - let's assume - Gen X. Now, Gen X was not really into anime, which is the butt of the joke. They weren't a bunch of weebs and probably also refer to group of the Japanese warrior class as 'samurais'. HOWEVER, they called lots of little bricks 'lego'. It was Millennials that started calling them 'legos'.
So, I'm pointing out the hypocrisy.
Only after I started doing it myself did I realize how much our parents/older siblings were messing with us by mispronoucing the shit we cared about as kids.
So basically you're the protagonist of this twitter(?) shitpost:
Not the protagonist.
We are legion, my friend.
Reminds me how adults pronounced manga when I was in school. "Mang-ha". Ugh.
Shut it ya dum sheeps dog!