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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” ?
I always hear people say “meets”, “FaceTime”, etc… Zoom is definitely the most popular but I wouldn’t consider a generic term.
I’ve heard people say Google zoom call. 🤪
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.
I hear FaceTime used more generically than Zoom (for mobile video chat)
Might be a thing with zoomers
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
Idk. I’m technically a zoomer as well and all video calling services are Skype to me
Hoover
It’s not used as a generic trademark in the US and the chart says it was made by an attorney in the US state of Colorado, presumably for an American audience. There’s a chance the creator of the chart has never even heard of a vacuum cleaner being called a “hoover” if it wasn’t a Hoover-brand vacuum.
The first time I saw a Brit mention hoovering their house I misunderstood and thought they were claiming they had made their house float in the air.
Wait, who owns super hero?
Both Marvel and DC. Look it up on Wikipedia for more details.
Can’t wait to see the Iron Man vs All Might lawsuit
How did they both end up owning it? I checked Wikipedia but don’t see where it explains how it happened.
Nevertheless, variations on the term “Super Hero” or “Superhero” are jointly claimed by DC Comics and Marvel Comics as trademarks. Registrations of “Super Hero” marks have been maintained by DC and Marvel since the 1960s, including U.S. Trademark Serial Nos. 72243225 and 73222079.[66] In 2009, the term “Super Heroes” was registered as a typography-independent “descriptive” US trademark co-owned by DC and Marvel.[67] Both DC Comics and Marvel Comics have been assiduous in protecting their rights in the “Super Hero” trademarks in jurisdictions where the registrations are in force, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, and including in respect of various goods and services falling outside comic book publications.[68]
I did a search and found this article that goes into more detail. They applied for a joint ownership trademark to basically stop anyone else from using the term super hero in books, movies, games, toys and more, including shoes?! Pretty interesting.
Chapstick goes all the way back to the 1880’s? Holy shit!
Super Hero is trade marked??? That one was surprising.
Who says “zoom” as a verb? People say “video chat” or, more realistically, “facetime” for all video chats.
Who says “zoom” as a verb?
Zoomers.
No one I know would use facetime… That suggests using a phone for a business meeting. Bad angles, shakey image… very unprofessional.
For a business meeting you need a computer which means we’re zooming, regardless of the platform
I’ve heard a lot of people talk about “zoom meetings” when the meetings are actually held on google meet, or webx.
Yeah, it seems like facetime would be more at risk for becoming generic. If it weren’t for Apple, that is.
I’ve used Zoom in previous companies to speak to clients, and have never heard anyone use it as a term for video calls. I have absolutely no idea where this has come from, but it’s definitely not true…
Let’s do a zoom meeting can conceivably be on Teams I guess
I work in tech. Everyone.
I’ve met a lot of people who do this through my work from home job
I’m surprised how long yo-yo lasted
And that Frisbee still has
Vaseline, Velcro, Mace and Styrofoam aren’t generic? The fuck? I didn’t even know those were trademarked names. Vaseline maybe, but the other three are common enough that I was sure they were generic.
The one that got me was zipper. What else do you call one?
It was previously commercialized as Lightning Fastener in NA, or hookless fastener in contrast with previous “technology”.
Non-english languages sometimes have other words for it, if they encountered it before the Zipper was widespread. In Spanish we have cremallera and cierre. Old timers say fecho-de-correr or “fecho eclair” in Portuguese, referring to another patent holder Éclair Prestil.
Mmmm…eclairs.
Petroleum jelly, hook and loop, pepper spray, and polystyrene.
polystyrene-foam
Roomba is a big one that is missing.
In the UK: Hoover is what everyone called their vacuum cleaner. Can’t stop for tea, I have the hoovering to do at home
Have you ever hoovered schneef?
Nope, had to wet-vac it up cuz people spilled their Tim’s on it
J’en ai compté 29 qui marchent aussi en français.
Realtor?
That’s weirder than Duncan’s claim on Yo-Yo getting rejected on a technicality, ninety-nine years late.
Onesie??? For real? All the others i already knew, but that one got me.
Can you explain zipper then? What’s one called besides zipper?
I’d maybe add Solo Cups.
That one is weird for us Aussies since a ‘Solo’ for us is a local lemon squash drink
Hearing ‘Solo Cup’ I just think of a cup of Solo haha
Here it’s a big cup, typically at a house party and holding alcohol.
The red ones? We have those too but I think they’re just called party cups. Put some Solo in there and you’d have a Solo Solo Cup!
Yep. And the reason I mentioned it is because I just bought some generic red cups from Target and got asked where the Solo Cups came from.
I try to avoid using all these names and instead use the more generic names.
What do you use for zipper, super hero, and trampoline?
From Wikipedia: A zipper, zip, fly, or zip fastener, formerly known as a clasp locker
Trampoline: The generic term for the trademarked trampoline was a rebound tumbler
Me inviting women to my rebound tumbler:
I believe of someone ever asked me to use my Rebound Tumbler I’d be forced to punch them in the face.
XYCL (examine your clasp locker)
Okay, maybe not all of them but honestly that’s because I didn’t know they were brand names
I too would like to know.
Fastener? Meta human? Bouncy springy thingy?
The German word for zipper is literally “tear/rip fastener” (Reißverschluss)
BLAKENHOVEN!
I have no idea what word was said in the TikTok video but the lady was so serious saying it!!
Because like everything straightforward and self explanatory is German. Love it!
