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In the UK: Hoover is what everyone called their vacuum cleaner. Can’t stop for tea, I have the hoovering to do at home

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Vaseline, Velcro, Mace and Styrofoam aren’t generic? The fuck? I didn’t even know those were trademarked names. Vaseline maybe, but the other three are common enough that I was sure they were generic.

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Petroleum jelly, hook and loop, pepper spray, and polystyrene.

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polystyrene-foam

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I try to avoid using all these names and instead use the more generic names.

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What do you use for zipper, super hero, and trampoline?

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I too would like to know.

Fastener? Meta human? Bouncy springy thingy?

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The German word for zipper is literally “tear/rip fastener” (Reißverschluss)

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From Wikipedia: A zipper, zip, fly, or zip fastener, formerly known as a clasp locker

Trampoline: The generic term for the trademarked trampoline was a rebound tumbler

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I believe of someone ever asked me to use my Rebound Tumbler I’d be forced to punch them in the face.

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XYCL (examine your clasp locker)

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I suppose a tweet isn’t a Twitter.

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I suppose a toot isn’t a Mastodon.

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Zoom was actually a word before 2011

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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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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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Isn’t google a real thing in numbers.

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No gogol is a number

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