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Groucho48
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Registered: 2003-10-22 03:00:14
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so there are people that call any kind of soft drink coke?
sounds strange to me
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Afio
Title: Belle of the Bull
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Registered: 2002-3-19 16:18:03
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Soft drink or coke.
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Tych2
Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
Posts: 2,511
Registered: 2005-3-1 06:56:47
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I don't get the ones that call all soda Coke. Coke is a brand name. That's like calling all cars Chevy or all TVs Sony. Soda is just a shortened form of soda pop. Just as pop is. Both of those make sense.
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Taliesihne
Title: Wind on the Deep Waters
Posts: 1,117
Registered: 2004-2-19 04:47:59
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Tych2 posted:
I don't get the ones that call all soda Coke. Coke is a brand name. That's like calling all cars Chevy or all TVs Sony. Soda is just a shortened form of soda pop. Just as pop is. Both of those make sense.
It's actually quite common.
http://coolrain44.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/brand-names-that-we-call-generic-products/
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Tych2
Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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Registered: 2005-3-1 06:56:47
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Yeah I still don't get it. The Coke one just makes no sense to me. It's not like that is the biggest one by a clear margin that it eclipses all others.
Most of those others on that list most people couldn't name a second brand.
I am guilty of the band-aid and Jell-o ones though.
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Manegarm
Title: European Imperialist Good Guy
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Registered: 2003-8-11 10:01:52
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Taliesihne
Title: Wind on the Deep Waters
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Registered: 2004-2-19 04:47:59
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Tych2 posted:
Yeah I still don't get it. The Coke one just makes no sense to me. It's not like that is the biggest one by a clear margin that it eclipses all others.
Most of those others on that list most people couldn't name a second brand.
Yeah, I don't get it either.
You could make the argument that since Coke was started in Georgia, that's why everyone calls all soda Coke, but Dr. Pepper (Texas) and Pepsi (North Carolina) were also born in the south.
Language is a funny thing sometimes.
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Cawlin
Posts: 1,759
Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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Calling all sodas "coke" is really no different than calling all adhesive bandages "Band-Aid" or calling all facial tissues "Kleenex" or calling all brands of tampons "Tampax".
It would be interesting to see the population of those counties in the map in the OP though. I suspect that the numbers of PEOPLE vs. numbers of counties would be vastly different than it appears on the map.
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Special-Fred
Title: Sultan of Spank
Posts: 245
Registered: 2003-7-30 16:12:04
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Theres a pretty big difference. A "band-aid" or "kleenex" have the same functions and no real variation. There a pretty big damn different between a mountain dew and a root beer, especially if they're both called a coke which is something else entirely.
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