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by jacobush 2351 days ago
I like destroying trademarks by verbifying them.
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Does that work? I’d imagine it just strengthens their brand until someone takes it to court.
It worked for aspirin and escalator. [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...

Thanks for that list - very informative! I never knew about many of these.