Please use our links: LEGO.com • Amazon
Recent discussions • Categories • Privacy Policy • Brickset.com
Brickset.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, the Amazon.com.ca, Inc. Associates Program and the Amazon EU Associates Programme, which are affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Comments
Fact is, it's an acronym, and you can pronounce it however you like. People will know what you mean.
Edit - Re-reading cheshirecat's post, he may be in the 'Ay-fol' camp, in which case I disagree with him completely!
;oD
I was surprised in a Brand Store when the manager said it as A (cat) FOL (follow) during a conversation. It just didn't sound right to me.
also I watched a documentary on Netflix about LEGO (its probably still on there) in which the term AFOL was explained but said as AF OL (as above). struck me as wrong when I heard it but hey maybe LEGO has given us the official pronunciation :P
P.S. I'm in the 'cat' group.
Sorry, Cat Followers. :)
Tomato, tomato. Nobody's really wrong here.
It's true that no ones wrong but for me the point of shortening a word in anyway is to save time.
Also I like the use of tomato, tomato...because I read them both the same way :-)
*I suppose technically they can but the pronunciations sound weird.
And I'm English, so I certainly explode @cheshirecat's theory.
Lego tried to coin their own similar term for the kids segment "Kids with A Bunch Of Bricks" (KABOB), but that didn't seem to catch on much.
But taking a step back, I don't really like how "Adult Fan Of Lego" sounds as a title. I'm hosting a LUG meeting this weekend. When I try to explain to non Lego friends and family who's coming over, I say "a bunch of Adult Fans Of Lego" it just sounds odd. I think it's the use of the word "Fan" how about "Enthusiast" or "Aficionado". Maybe we can coin a more sophisticated title, like "2nd Generation Lego Aficionado" to refer to builder/collectors who are no longer "kids" (AKA first Gener's) and are now, well, 2nd Generation Lego Aficionados. We can be the "2nd geners"
or maybe not... this was an afol idea.
Why bother mentioning that we are/you are/they are an Adult? Or Teen? Or Kid?
Isn't that understood from context?
Those kids over there are FOL's. I wonder if their parents are FOL's?
The leading A, T, or K are extraneous.
A(cat) plus FOL sounds like awful.
A(hay) plus FOL sounds like this: