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by inigyou 9 days ago
I really thought ChatGPT would be able to tell me what this is called but it can't. I suggest "circular eponym".

It's like calling a CRT monitor a really big flatscreen.

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it's more like you would call a xerox-brand photocopier a "xerox machine" and mean that it was a photocopier rather than that it was made by xerox.