Word of the day

[mathhobbit]

Unisex

Yes this it the right word, but it sure looks funny! Also, have you noticed how gendered Lego has gotten?

Comments

[desireearmfeldt]

Yes, but what I mean is, in English, "unisex" doesn't really grammatically match its context, in that it sounds like it's describing the sex of the thing when that isn't what it actually means.

Lego seems to me to have decided to try to be Playmobil. That is, to be about making stories about characters in settings (the kind of okay Playmobil was always designed for) rather than about building things (the kind of okay Lego was originally designed for). Though Playmobil has also gotten more specific/less modular/interchangeable, I think.

[kelkyag]

Unisex is trying to describe the lack of gender (or sex) of the thing, perhaps? (But ... English. I don't actually expect words that describe, or seem to be trying to describe, the same space of thing to work in any sensible parallel way.)

It feels like legos are turning into 3D jigsaw puzzles. I imagine the kits do provide practice and ideas for people who want to design their own.