erosiaart opened this issue on Sep 24, 2008 · 63 posts
pauljs75 posted Sat, 27 September 2008 at 5:21 AM
Usually when your trademarked product name is put to common usage to describe things or even altered into a verb form, believe it or not - that's a good thing. It tends to mean that you're at the top of your game for some reason, and therefore fairly common. And this familiarity is what makes the name ubiquitous in terms of usage.
Most people don't ask for a tissue, they ask for Kleenex.
Some people don't say copy, they say to Xerox it.
I don't ask for glass cleaner, it's Windex I need for that job.
A lot of people don't say I'm going to look it up on a search engine, they just Google it.
Or with photomanipulation (already covered), it's PhotoShopped.
Some people ask for a Coke, when they mean any cola-type beverage in general.
It's not often a product name gets a bad connotation in common usage, but sometimes it happens. Spam for instance.
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