<![CDATA[Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name.]]>Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name.

"No ManlyFit today, as I’ll go to Zurf and will have a Smith&Benny."

And we are supposed to understand you don’t go to gym because you need to buy some hardware and will have an ice-cream afterward.

What is striking is how reducing their language to brands (that non-US don’t even know about) is shrinking their worldview…

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ublog.hurel.me/notes/al995je38g7m0003https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ublog.hurel.me/notes/al995je38g7m0003Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:34:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:04:37 GMT]]>@ploum
Grr. Fight the branding.

I call my electric dust-slurping machines vacuum cleaners, even the one that was made by Hoover.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/sunflowerinrain/statuses/116426793105634618https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/sunflowerinrain/statuses/116426793105634618Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:04:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:33:46 GMT]]>@ploum
M'ouai, bon, rien de nouveau, là.

Allez hop, faut que je passes un wettex dans ma cuisine, et que je scotches deux pages dans ce livre qui tombe en morceaux ...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/levitte/statuses/116425492140476811https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/levitte/statuses/116425492140476811Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:33:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:28:16 GMT]]>@Kay @ploum Correlation is not causation, but in significant parts of the US the correlation is depressingly high for that particular piece of clothing.

That said, the correlation between suit-wearing political actors and pedophilia is also higher than average as well

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/users/erik/statuses/116425234630848254https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/users/erik/statuses/116425234630848254Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:28:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:12:23 GMT]]>@ploum

The facts its hundreds of miles to the other side of the state in most cases always sharnk their world view

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ruby.social/users/dekkzz78/statuses/116425172181155750https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ruby.social/users/dekkzz78/statuses/116425172181155750Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:12:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:04:19 GMT]]>@ploum
My pet peeve about USA'ans on the interwebs: the/our national ...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.nl/users/janneke/statuses/116425140455045455https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://todon.nl/users/janneke/statuses/116425140455045455Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:04:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:52:29 GMT]]>@ploum It reminds me the Restaurant in Demolition Man (with a different brand for US and Europe)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ludosphere.fr/users/Narkhos/statuses/116425093897854308https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ludosphere.fr/users/Narkhos/statuses/116425093897854308Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:52:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:51:14 GMT]]>@ploum Dans ces trois exemples, il s'agit de commerces. Ils sont organisés en chaînes sous une marque aux USA et chaque chaîne a plus ou moins un monopole sur un produit (ce qui est un autre problème). En France aussi, mais moins.
Les français ne vont pas dire je vais "chez Zurf" (Home depot) mais bien "chez Leroy-Merlin" ou "au Casto". Pareil pour les hamburgers, ils disent "je vais au McDo". C'est pareil.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.radio/users/dl2jml/statuses/116425088965400590https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.radio/users/dl2jml/statuses/116425088965400590Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:51:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:15:09 GMT]]>@ploum calling a singlet a "wifebeater" is ick too. 🤢

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/Kay/statuses/116424947093816928https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/Kay/statuses/116424947093816928Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:15:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:47:10 GMT]]>@mrzool
Pas seulement, malheureusement

Word , Excel , PowerPoint
Au lieu de
Traitement de texte, Tableur, logiciel de présentation
Etc. ..😟

@ploum]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ville.sorcie.re/objects/6b34d85b-be5d-415a-80e4-5936e463134chttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ville.sorcie.re/objects/6b34d85b-be5d-415a-80e4-5936e463134cSat, 18 Apr 2026 08:47:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:36:02 GMT]]>@ploum But ironically, brands seem more meaningless now that they have since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Most big companies don't produce or develop their own products. They just call around to find whatever factory has the best (i.e. cheapest (i.e. most explotative)) conditions and send a PDF with a logo to slap on the side.

(yes, I'm oversimplifying this but the basic notion is not far off)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://post.lurk.org/users/praxeology/statuses/116424793316715159https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://post.lurk.org/users/praxeology/statuses/116424793316715159Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:36:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:30:31 GMT]]>@ploum It's been going on for a long time but the brand-centric worldview seems to have gotten worse.

I get the impression, thanks especially to ad-based and influence-based social media forms, that many people have started to lose faith in learning about actual things. Instead, they develop a sad perspective that the only knowledge worth having is which brands are the most popular.

Journalists seem especially susceptible - they seem to think that as reporters of the Zeitgeist they must always reference specific brands, especially platforms, instead of generic techniques or devices.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://post.lurk.org/users/praxeology/statuses/116424771590883334https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://post.lurk.org/users/praxeology/statuses/116424771590883334Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:30:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:18:09 GMT]]>@ceciestmontpouet

@ploum

Je me faisais cette réflexion aussi en rentrant du Shopi sur ma Motobécane pour remplir mon frigo.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mamot.fr/users/petitevieille/statuses/116424722950948949https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mamot.fr/users/petitevieille/statuses/116424722950948949Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:18:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:17:59 GMT]]>@ceciestmontpouet @ploum Sopalin, Kleenex, …
J’en ai découvert des dizaines d’autres par ici :
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_de_marques_utilisées_comme_noms

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/Crocmagnon/statuses/116424722316521221https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/Crocmagnon/statuses/116424722316521221Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:17:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:16:39 GMT]]>@ploum

“genericization” or “trademark erosion” – when a brand name becomes so common, it can no longer be registered as a trademark and it becomes much harder to enforce proprietary rights

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Generic trademark - Wikipedia

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(en.wikipedia.org)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.targaryen.house/users/cerement/statuses/116424717090779269https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.targaryen.house/users/cerement/statuses/116424717090779269Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:16:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:11:01 GMT]]>@ploum I think they call this habit "StoopidMaxxing" nowadays.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://punkstodon.de/ap/users/115925666679022139/statuses/116424694911071989https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://punkstodon.de/ap/users/115925666679022139/statuses/116424694911071989Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:11:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:10:33 GMT]]>@ploum we europeans do this too, just with our own brands

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mrzool/statuses/116424693086067522https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mrzool/statuses/116424693086067522Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:10:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Americans don’t realize how weird they sounds to non-Americans when they use brands instead of proper name. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:06:32 GMT]]>@ploum Yes but Frigidaire.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piaille.fr/users/ceciestmontpouet/statuses/116424677309909469https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piaille.fr/users/ceciestmontpouet/statuses/116424677309909469Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:06:32 GMT