After cutting your finger do you ask for a bandaid or an Adhesive Medical Strip?
There's a benefit to turning company names into Nouns or Verbs
Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
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Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#32Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.
Zip it!
Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#33Duck it
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#34After cutting your finger do you ask for a bandaid or an Adhesive Medical Strip? There's a benefit to turning company names into Nouns or Verbs
150 years ago, I may have asked for a bandage or first aid. Perhaps those terms helped give an idea to the marketing team.
Being more accustomed to medical terms now, sometimes I call it a “dressing” which is also two syllables.
“Adhesive Medical Strip” sounds one of those database categories someone invented for a store or clinic, once Band-Aid had competitors.
Re: Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
#35how about saying AI it
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#36I've never got into turning business names into verbs, and I am from the generation that heavily used "Google it". Nowadays, I have colleagues suggest to "Ask Claude/ChatGPT". I want to collaborate and build on the team experience, not ask a system that can hallucinate an answer!
Probably most people don't Xerox things or Fotomat pictures, but still ask for a Kleenex, or use a Thermos, Band-aid, Flip-phone, Chapstick or Post-it
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#37All you have to do is say you're going to "Bing it" and everyone in the room laughs.
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#38I need to tell my IRC friends ASAP.
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#39In Finnish there is an acronym KVG (katso vittu Googlesta) which stands roughly for Look up on the fucking Google. I wonder what will replace it in the age of LLMs
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#40The propaganda against Google Gemini is wild, but no thanks. We know how this will play out soon.