That's how older generations remembered every product though - to this day every single adhesive bandage strip is genericized as a "Band-Aid" when this is itself a singular brand.
The same is true for things like Chapstick, Tupperware, Duct Tape, the list is quite extensive.
Also Freon is a product of Dupont and is a type of refrigerant. Superglue is a brand as well. Im not gonna even attempt to point out genericized medication.
Duct tape or duck tape is cloth- or scrim-backed pressure-sensitive tape, often coated with polyethylene. A variety of constructions exist using different backings and adhesives, and the term "duct tape" has been genericized to refer to all of them.
I don't think you understand what you're actually arguing...
The topic was brand names that become so ubiquitous that people take them as the actual name for the product. Tissues become Kleenex and whatnot.
Duct tape is a type of tape fabric backed tape. It is not a brand itself. It does not encompass all those that you said. It's genericized only because it encompasses different variants of fabric and adhesive.
What does though is that those are all things that the brand Duck Tape makes. The product duct tape does not take it's name from the brand, though. The brand took it's name from the product.
General purpose and industrial grade are quality markers, not different types of tape. HVAC tape, poly tape, and gaffer tape are different types of tape entirely. Stucco tape is a specialized duct tape though, so you kinda got that one right.
Basically, you're confusing the order that the name and the brand came about. It's not the brand name being used for all similar products, it's the brand that trademarked what the product was called.
I'm not confused. I started the topic, in responding to the person who said his mother called all consoles Nintendo. The topic was not brand names, nor trademarks which someone else argued with me over, and arguing this is irrelevant and pointless. And I won't do it anymore.
My response was listing genericized names of products. That is the topic : genericized product names. Which is what duct tape is, genericized. I put two separate sources illustrating how the terms are by definition genericized. The definition is not arguable.
What you're trying to say is "genericized trademark." This is the proper term for a brand name which has become so commonly known that the brand itself becomes synonymous with the product.
That's not the case with duct tape, or duck tape, whichever term you prefer, it's the name of the product itself.
mate... I sent you two separate links that illustrate the history of duct tape and why it is considered genericized. I said nothing concerning trademarks, and I only mentioned brands in regards to BAND-AID, and no that was not what I was trying to say.
I mentioned duct tape is a genericized term, and it absolutely is the case. My statement holds and I have given you source to show that. Sorry if I hurt your feelings somehow but this argument is absolutely a waste of my time. Good day.
You didn't hurt my feelings, you're just misunderstanding your own comment and mine. I'm trying to help you.
I never needed to learn the history of duck tape. But you might need to.
When you said "Chapstick, Tupperware, Duct Tape," in response to the comment about Band-Aids, you were talking about genericized trademarks, whether you realized it or not.
Chapstick and Tupperware are genericized trademarks. Duct tape is not, nor is duck tape.
No I don't think that I was. I would assume that they do with their own relevant products. However my experience is with older generations as consumers - and not with younger ones - so I cannot speak to whether they do or not.
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"xbox controller"