Just because Americans are comfortable with genercising brands doesn’t change the fact that they’re subliminal marketing/advertising.
If anything your link should wake people up to the power of these adverts and why they should be resisted.
I vacuum my floor, I don’t Hoover™ my floor.
I search, I don’t Google™.
I travel or taxi, I don’t Uber™.
If you’re free to use corporate trade names for verbs, instead of commonly understood verbs. Then surely by the same logic I’m free to ridicule that usage?
do you consider advertisements people who use coke, cyberpunk, frisbee, jet ski, photoshop or roomba?
Just because Americans are comfortable with genercising brands doesn’t change the fact that they’re subliminal marketing/advertising.
If anything your link should wake people up to the power of these adverts and why they should be resisted.
I vacuum my floor, I don’t Hoover™ my floor.
I search, I don’t Google™.
I travel or taxi, I don’t Uber™.
If you’re free to use corporate trade names for verbs, instead of commonly understood verbs. Then surely by the same logic I’m free to ridicule that usage?
Every language I know of does this
Chan ann anns a’ chànan agamsa.