
I'm surprised (and maybe Xerox is, too, after all the money they spent) that people are using " xerox" with "photocopy" - thereby rendering that famous trademark into generic-land. "MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader CmdrTaco 2010 OpEdNews - Diary: Voting Day Open Thread- Post reports, observations, Thoughts Links 2008Įven if they didn't use PP, it would still be referred to by that name as people used to call all photocopies " xerox" and all inline skates "rollerblades". Hillary On Obama's Speeches: "It's Change You Can Xerox" 2009Īccording to the radio report, a " xerox" man happened to be present who was able to fix the malfunctioning machine. She ducked the transceperancy and ear marks question, ducked the delegates question - and John "Kiss Ass" King threw her punch lines "where is the beef" punch line, She had a cheap " xerox" moment - but at the end she "paints a picture" of our vetrans that she send to a war and never admitted it was mistake, and she becomes the sweet heart. There were enough obviously scripted moments in her talk tonight ( " xerox" comes to mind) and the fact that her closer statement didn't answer the question, makes me feel that her handlers wanted her to get in one last huge emotional appeal. Hillary's Closer - A Big Moment, Or Not Enough? 2009

The people who most objected to my using the word " xerox" to refer to copying stuff were the people at Kodak.Įither use the " xerox" swipe, or lift from John and Bill. Those who argued for aggression are dinosaurs, relics of a clunky pre-interactive politics that has slipped into the past this year, a politics where consultants were considered clever if they could supply lines like the " xerox" gambit. photocopy machine photocopy machine Dictionary Entries Near photocopy.
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so brand equity is what i’d think.īrain Tap Series – Interview 15: Jonathan Salem Baskin « One Size Fits One 2008 The meaning of PHOTOCOPY is a copy of usually printed material made with a process in which an image is formed by the action of light usually on an electrically charged surface.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVI No 1 1989Įaon – apparently that IS true, the book’s out in the UK only in january, so we have to wait! manuscrypts – it simply means that xerox is a company that is reinventing themselves.

Despite such entreaties, the word xerox seems to have become generic, if not according to the courts, then at least according to current American usage, where it occurs freely as noun, adjective, and even verb, with or without capitalization.
