Minor complaint

[k0bgalan]

I keep hearing YouTube videographers referring to metal detectors as machines. That description is incorrect, as there are no moving parts save for electronics moving about. The correct term is instrument. And, considering the complexity of the circuitry, they're certainly professional instruments!

 

[creskol]

I think that is a universal misnomer.. kind of like oeople calling all circular saws skill saws.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

The folks that still have all their fingers have the skill

 

[pepperj]

The folks that still have all their fingers have the skill

Well that leaves me out.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Well that leaves me out.

Me too.😩

 

[Digging Prayers]

🖐️🤚 I'm good, but I have run screws the them, pinched them, cut them, punctured them, mashed them and bashed them.

 

[pepperj]

I keep hearing YouTube videographers referring to metal detectors as machines. That description is incorrect, as there are no moving parts save for electronics moving about. The correct term is instrument. And, considering the complexity of the circuitry, they're certainly professional instruments!

I like to refer my machine's name by its proper pronoun. THE DETECTOR ❤️

 

[pepperj]

Me too.😩

If I had 1/10 of your finger skills I'd be

 

[creskol]

Well that leaves me out.

Me, too .. I have to do everything in Base 8.

 

[Mackaydon]

And I'll keep calling tissue paper --Kleenex.
Don in SoCal

 

[GirlWithWolf]

And I'll keep calling tissue paper --Kleenex.
Don in SoCal

I read an article about this not too long ago. It’s called “genericization”, where a brand has become so well known for a product the name is used for other brands of the same type of product.

Kleenex, Velcro, Bandaid, and Jacuzzi are some examples.

 

[Digger54]

It's not a cookie Mother, it's a Fig Newton!

 

[Sandog]

Well that leaves me out.

I'm in that group as well. Ever since I stuck my little 3 year old fingers in a very sharp old reel type mower. I don't hesitate to use a skill saw, but I avoided those mowers ever since. I think it might have been due to heredity, my grandfather lost 5 in a punch press.
And I agree, that is a minor complaint.

 

[Mackaydon]

I read an article about this not too long ago. It’s called “genericization”, where a brand has become so well known for a product the name is used for other brands of the same type of product.

Kleenex, Velcro, Bandaid, and Jacuzzi are some examples.

"Zerox me a copy"
Don in SoCal

 

[pepperj]

I read an article about this not too long ago. It’s called “genericization”, where a brand has become so well known for a product the name is used for other brands of the same type of product.

Kleenex, Velcro, Bandaid, and Jacuzzi are some examples.

Unlike standard cultural traditions, genericization carries major legal consequences.
If a brand name becomes completely generic, the company can lose its trademark rights. This is called genericide.
Lost Trademarks: Brands like Escalator, Thermos, Dry Ice, and Heroin were once registered trademarks that companies lost because they became the generic terms.

 

[releventchair]

Unlike standard cultural traditions, genericization carries major legal consequences.
If a brand name becomes completely generic, the company can lose its trademark rights. This is called genericide.
Lost Trademarks: Brands like Escalator, Thermos, Dry Ice, and Heroin were once registered trademarks that companies lost because they became the generic terms.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Reminds me of a conversation I had with the secretary at a machine shop I was working at in the 1980's. I was the shipper/receiver and ran out of tape. I asked her for a roll of transparent tape and she had no clue what I wanted! I then said Scotch tape and she finally got it. She wasn't the brightest bulb...

 

[ToddsPoint]

Styrofoam is another trade name. When I was in school in Italy any roll of tape was called “Scotch”. Language is always evolving.

 

[Crow]

It's funny that a brand name is working its way into the dictionary. Kodak was a term in the old day is say taking a photograph of me was taking a Kodak of me. People today would say, " What?

Crow

 

[Gare]

A lot of the answers here sure brings back a lot of memories. Thanks all