- Blog Posted by chatillion
online now!chatillion
66, North Miami, Florida
Online Now!- Dec 6, 2018 / 182 Views
Name dropping brands and not products...
Achoo... please hand me a Kleenex.
Most of the time, it's tissue as Kleenex is a name brand.
I had a client give out her contact information and said she was giving me her iPhone number. You and I know this to be a cellphone. Telling me she had an Apple iPhone (for a cellphone) was an unnecessary name drop.
My Mercedes is parked out front. Oh, is that your car?
Last week ,I did a blog about Q-TIPS.
They are cotton swabs, but most people call them by the name brand.
"Would you like a Coke?"
"No, I'll have a Pepsi"
My grandmother always referred to a refrigerator as Frigidaire. That was the brand name she owned.
Putting things into perspective, my dad always called it an "Ice Box"
Most of the time, it's tissue as Kleenex is a name brand.
I had a client give out her contact information and said she was giving me her iPhone number. You and I know this to be a cellphone. Telling me she had an Apple iPhone (for a cellphone) was an unnecessary name drop.
My Mercedes is parked out front. Oh, is that your car?
Last week ,I did a blog about Q-TIPS.
They are cotton swabs, but most people call them by the name brand.
"Would you like a Coke?"
"No, I'll have a Pepsi"
My grandmother always referred to a refrigerator as Frigidaire. That was the brand name she owned.
Putting things into perspective, my dad always called it an "Ice Box"
JimNastics
Sorry. We are fresh out of Kleenex. Would you like to guess another brand ?
Dec 6, 2018JimNastics
Perhaps a somewhat similar scenario as this;
Dec 7, 2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0
Onthcrestofawave
Tuppaware
Dec 7, 2018Tampax
Macdonald's
FBI
USA
Subway
Zippo
Playboy
Onthcrestofawave
http://mentalfloss.com/article/56667/41-brand-names-people-use-generic-terms
Dec 7, 2018EXRED
tenner lady polite way of saying adult nappy ha ha
Dec 7, 2018Sorry for those so aflicted, could be my turn soon ha ha
jac_the_gripper
My mum always referred to products by their 1950's brand names, but she learned English by emigrating to England in the late 50's. She probably didn't know they were brand names to start with and they stuck with her as generic names.
Dec 7, 2018One of the classics has to be 'Hoover'. Vacuum cleaner is a phrase rarely even now.
Occasionally I hear people referring to their Dyson, so revolutionary was this contraption, but it's not used in the generic way hoover is. They say Dyson if the have a Dyson, but we all say hoover, whatever the brand, or design.
mollybaby
Name dropping is different to calling this by a brand name that is synonymous with the product.
Dec 7, 2018If someone said Mercedes to me instead of car, I'd do an eye-roll, internally or externally depending on the circumstances.
Hoover is definitely the most common one, and also used as a verb - I must do some hoovering this evening
Post-its are another one that come to mind
Or Jacuzzi
Tupperware is used for pretty much all such plastic containers too
Oh, and styrofoam and bubblewrap. I'm sure they are brand names also.
chatillion
crest, thanks for the link!
Dec 7, 2018I was dreaming of Hoover and got up this morning to see comments about the vacuum cleaner.
chatillion
molly, agreed, in the most accepted definition of 'name dropping' would be to bring up the name of a famous person you know of or can be associated with.
Dec 7, 2018I had a friend in the granite countertop business who bragged about doing actor Sylvester Stone's kitchen!
chatillion
Post-its are another one that come to mind
Dec 7, 2018I keep my reminders on Sticky Notes. Later, I found out it's an application on Windows.
EXRED
I usually say i need a tissue ha ha cheapskate i am i pick the cheapest brand of anything
Dec 7, 2018rizlared
Using a brand name as a generic term is a marketing dream, shame Hoover went bust through a massive marketing folly. They should have listened to the older guys in that dept, rather than the young inexperienced chaps who thought they knew better.
Dec 28, 2018