I think we’ve all heard of this concept, a brand name that becomes the common term for something—like Band-Aid™, Hula hoop™, Tupperware™, Aspirin, etc. All of those are former or current brand names of things. They’re called genericized trademarks and I think the idea of them is common knowledge. I find that a lot of people… Continue reading Genericized!
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Dr. Layman or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Simplicity
From a convenience store in Manhattan:Part of me is angry for how stupid the world must be for something like this to exist. I mean, “I’ve cut myself?” I get allergy medicine or aspirin being tricky but band-aids? You’ve cut yourself and you forgot the thing you need to buy is band-aids? AHHH! The other… Continue reading Dr. Layman or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Simplicity