• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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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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    Wait, are these the dates when the brand that eventually was deemed a “common word” were first trade marked? I was reading this as the years they were deemed common words.

    Cause 2011 is WAYYYY too early for zoom to be common. If anything, that would’ve been Skype on 2011. Similar thing for Tupperware and zipper.

    Also, wtf was heroin’s common name before being branded heroin? Lol, also, I can’t help but imagine heroin got its name as some kind of “there’s a hero in every needle” marketing campaign.

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      It’s from the German word “heroisch”, which is basically “heroic”. They used it being a homonym for “heroine” to use women heroes or Valkyrie in marketing for a bit, because it’ll save you from that nasty cough.

      It didn’t really go by anything before, since it’s not something super easy to make, and so the first people to really make a lot of it was Bayer, and they named it heroin.

      Before heroin people had morphine, and heroin had been made as “diamorphine”, but it just wasn’t really a thing.

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        In the 80’s there was a brand of cough suppressant pills with codeine (prescription only) called Tussigon, as codeine is a an anti-tussive (anti-cough).

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      year the brand name was first introduced.

      It says so in the legend. Zoom has been a word for a long time but it now also means “participate in a (video) teleconference”, which is a new meaning directly linked to the zoom software released in 2011. When a word became generic is usually very hard to pinpoint exactly (except for zoom that was 2020)

      For heroin: I don’t think there was heroin before the introduction of the heroin brand. Bayer literally invented the substance. (Wikipedia says it was invented 23 years earlier in Britain from morphine, but the inventer didn’t do anything with it so it was reinvented later). It was also not a drug you take to get high, it was an over the counter cough suppressant; no needle or spoon or lighter involved. Wild times for sure…

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        It was diacetyl morphine before Bayer marketed it. Fun fact; the acetyl groups get cleaved before it binds to a receptor so it’s just plain old morphine again.

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        Derp, thanks for pointing out the legend. Totally missed it as I gave the thing a once over.

        But also, obviously this means heroin’s name must come from “a hero in every pill”

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      I dunno, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t call it a vacuum. I know people who own Hoover’s and they still call it their vacuum.

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        That’s UK English vs. American English. I think American English might genericise (if that’s a word) trademarks more often than UK English, but hoover is one that the UK has that America doesn’t.

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      It’s probably American biased. In the US it’s commonly called a ‘vacuum’ or ‘vacuum cleaner.’ ‘Hoover’ is not used much in US.

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    The Dumpster Brothers? Their last fucking name was Dumpster? Wild that that was just a common last name with no connection to trash for centuries

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        Both words are used, so I understand the confusion; also, sprinkled with a little misspelling:

        Dumpster: The Dempster Brorthers, Inc.
        

        EDIT: Just read the Dumpster Wikipedia page. The Dempster Brothers’ had a truck called The Dempster Dumpmaster 😂

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        On cold nights, we’d gather together around the Dempster fire and discuss how bad things were, we’d share drinks and bond as the we burned the garbage to stay warm on those cold nights. No one could turn away for those Dempster fires as they were amazing to watch. Yep Everyone loved watching those Dempster fires

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      It’s kind of indicative that the courts have bent to corporations on not generciding names for nearly 60 years. How long have dumpsters been so ubiquitous that no one even knew it was a brand? Very Berenstain Bears situation.

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      Wait until you learn about Thomas Crapper, who made major improvements to the modern toilet.

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      I agree. If dump was a word before (I’ll have to check), then dumpster is a simple modification.

  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
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    Has ‘zoom’ become a generic term for video calling/conferencing? For example are people saying “let’s zoom later on Skype” ?

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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      Sometimes my boss will use mention “zoom” when scheduling a virtual meeting between us and clients, but we choose which platform we use and most of us don’t use zoom. So its sorta being used like that.

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      I always hear people say “meets”, “FaceTime”, etc… Zoom is definitely the most popular but I wouldn’t consider a generic term.

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        I’m perhaps the worst zoomer to ask about zoomer stereotypes, but I haven’t noticed my generation doing that. I have noticed my parents doing it though, after the pandemic any app that can do video calls is either “zoom” or “teams” depending on who you ask

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    Something I find interesting, lino was replaced by vinyl which was worse and plasticy but cheaper and the name carried over.

    Most people when they think of floor lino thinka actually of vinyl rather than the actual original!

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    Realtor?

    That’s weirder than Duncan’s claim on Yo-Yo getting rejected on a technicality, ninety-nine years late.