On Wednesday 31 January 2007 12:04, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/31/07 10:56, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:52:55AM -0500, Max Hyre wrote: > >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>> The real > >>> interesting one to me is the battle Adobe has going to prevent > >>> "photoshop" from becoming a synonym for "edit a photograph" or > >>> for an edited photograph. > >> > >> It's already been, you should pardon the expression, > >> ``verbed''. As in ``Was that photoshopped?'' when expressing > >> doubt as to the authenticity of an image. > > > > Yes, but Adobe is still fighting it. Download their trademark > > "guidelines" from their website to see what I mean. > > As if they can stop people from saying it...
I know Jeep is having a similar problem. It was worse a decade or so ago when the Suzuki Samurai was a big deal. People would use the small-j "jeep" to refer to the Samurai and other vehicles that were similar to the Jeep CJ and Jeep Wrangler. I notice that my spellcheck in KMail recognizes small-j "jeep" as a legitimate word (but it doesn't recognize spellcheck and does recognize KMail). It also shows up in the KDE dictionary search as a "regular" word. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
