@garritfra and stop using 'Hoover' as a term for vacuuming....

@garritfra and stop using 'Hoover' as a term for vacuuming. There are quite a few that crept into the language.

Like 24 Dec 2020 at 8:25 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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Kiudecan

@danie10 @emacsomancer true, yes, but none of these examples raises a systemic power issue like google does

24 Dec 2020 at 14:24 | Open on framapiaf.org

@kiudecan I don't disagree, but as a linguistic phenomenon, I'm not sure that speakers pay attention to potential knock-on effects.

@danie10

24 Dec 2020 at 17:10 | Open on fsmi.social