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Aces to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year ago

Brand names that have become common words

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Brand names that have become common words

Aces to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Zoom was actually a word before 2011

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      Not with that meaning but yes, poor terminology on the visual since it implies it was not.

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        I suppose the title “brand names that became common words” implies that it was a brandname before being a common word, otherwise the reader should pretty much never assume that.

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      Trademarks are context sensitive, and zoom was not used as a term for video calls before that. It is interesting that that’s the only one on the list that isn’t also a made up word

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        Über is also not made up 👀

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        Isn’t google a real thing in numbers.

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          That’s googol.

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          No gogol is a number

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        Where do you draw the line between made up words and non-made up words? It’s not like a supernova explosion creates new words that land on a forming planet so that a billion years later a new sentient species can just pick them up from the ground and start using them.

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      True, but it has gained additional meaning and uses. Before 2011, you could not “join a zoom”, for example.

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      The TV series was in 1972

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_(1972_TV_series)?wprov=sfla1

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      And uber was before 2009.

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      Not to mention many of these are literally still brand names and have not in fact been ruled generic.

      Oh I see now they’ve made the generic ones dark grey.

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