[Lexicog] new shaver

Wayne Leman wayne_leman at SIL.ORG
Wed Sep 24 02:24:48 UTC 2008


"The new iPod of shavers if finally here."

That is the first line of an ad just posted on Facebook. It's not your 
grandfather's shaver. It's not your father's shaver. It's not the mother of 
all shavers. It's a new iPod of shavers.

Wow! How little time it takes in technologized English for a tradename to 
become a descriptor.

Wayne Leman 


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