Subject: Aha, you've fallen into my trap!
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Posted on: 2016-05-03 16:15:00 UTC

I'm kidding; there is no trap. But I have an excellent rebuttal: the addition of aspirin to the brain bleach is precisely what sets Bleeprin apart from the generic stuff, and is a tactic infamously used by drug companies everywhere to establish patents and rake in the big bucks. Oh, you want a new patent but your drug is too similar to another drug? Just tack another compound onto the one you actually care about, claim it enhances it or whatever, and you're all set! Trademark secured.

I bet some of you still hoover with a Hoover, though. As for saying "coke" when you mean soda/pop, that's just you and the American South. You'll forgive me if I don't take regional aberrations of dialect too seriously as an argument. ^_~

I'm not saying genericization (ick, what a mouthful) doesn't happen, but that doesn't excuse serious writers from capitalizing a brand name when used as such. Whether agents are in fact doing so is a good question. Mine are, at least. {= )

I have no defense for the Bleeprin knockoffs. A lot of them are explicitly just cooked up in someone's RC, and I can't think of any real world cases of something derived from a brand retaining its capital. Probably because attempting such a thing would get you sued in the real world.

~Neshomeh

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