Re: Debian, Iceweasel, Firefox!
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 12:04, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/31/07 10:56, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:52:55AM -0500, Max Hyre wrote:
> >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >>> The real
> >>> interesting one to me is the battle Adobe has going to prevent
> >>> "photoshop" from becoming a synonym for "edit a photograph" or
> >>> for an edited photograph.
> >>
> >> It's already been, you should pardon the expression,
> >> ``verbed''. As in ``Was that photoshopped?'' when expressing
> >> doubt as to the authenticity of an image.
> >
> > Yes, but Adobe is still fighting it. Download their trademark
> > "guidelines" from their website to see what I mean.
>
> As if they can stop people from saying it...
I know Jeep is having a similar problem. It was worse a decade or so
ago when the Suzuki Samurai was a big deal. People would use the
small-j "jeep" to refer to the Samurai and other vehicles that were
similar to the Jeep CJ and Jeep Wrangler. I notice that my spellcheck
in KMail recognizes small-j "jeep" as a legitimate word (but it doesn't
recognize spellcheck and does recognize KMail). It also shows up in
the KDE dictionary search as a "regular" word.
Hal
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