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08-27-2008, 11:54 AM
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My Car: Other Non-Hybrid Package: N/A Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 |  Products names synonomous with the product type This could be fun......products who's names are synonomous with the product type, to the point where they are interchangeable a sentence. I'll start it off..... Kleenex = tissue. |
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08-27-2008, 12:35 PM
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #7 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | Re: Products names synonomous with the product type google = internet search engine. Along these lines though... such synonymous usage is actually very, very bad for companies. Yes, you want your product well known, but when it becomes synonymous, as in Kleenex, you risk losing your trademark, meaning your competitors can use the name free and clear to describe their product. "Google" declared a verb |
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08-27-2008, 12:36 PM
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #7 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 | Re: Products names synonomous with the product type mapquest = internet route mapping engine. I can't count the number of times people will say "i map quested it" and pull out pages printed from google maps! |
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08-27-2008, 02:37 PM
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #5 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 6 | Re: Products names synonomous with the product type I've heard this one only among stage techs in community theater ... Makita = cordless drill/screwdriver |
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08-27-2008, 02:48 PM
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My Car: 2008 Prius Package: #2 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 4 | Re: Products names synonomous with the product type kodachrome = a slide used for projecting a visual image on a screen. ... but, of course, this is quite obsolete anayway ... |
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08-27-2008, 02:55 PM
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #7 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 6 | Re: Products names synonomous with the product type Ford = car (in some parts of the world) Coke = any soda (in some parts of the U.S.) Yo-yo = spinning string toy |
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