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At this rate people will soon use "alphabet" as a verb the same way they made "google" into a verb: "we were doing steady progress but 3 months before release
by pawadu 10y ago
At this rate people will soon use "alphabet" as a verb the same way they made "google" into a verb:
"we were doing steady progress but 3 months before release the management decided to alphabet the project and send everyone home."
- pluma 10y agoThat'd be great because "google" as a verb already has other meanings ("search with a search engine").
- pawadu 10y agoIsn't there a legal name for this (i.e. company name/product becoming a common word)? I think it has legal implication for a trademark, but in the case of Alphabet it was already a common word so it probably has no meaning.
- mattnewton 10y agoYou could be thinking of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark Or the related term "genericide"
- pawadu 10y agoThats is, thanks!
- amorphid 10y ago> At this rate people will soon use "alphabet" as a verb the same way they made "google" into a verb: New headline => Alphabet alphabetizes Titan Drone Internet Project