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do you consider advertisements people who use coke, cyberpunk, frisbee, jet ski, photoshop or roomba?
Just because Americans are comfortable with genercising brands doesn't change the fact that they're subliminal marketing/advertising.
If anything your link should wake people up to the power of these adverts and why they should be resisted.
I vacuum my floor, I don't Hoover™ my floor.
I search, I don't Google™.
I travel or taxi, I don't Uber™.
If you're free to use corporate trade names for verbs, instead of commonly understood verbs. Then surely by the same logic I'm free to ridicule that usage?
Every language I know of does this
Chan ann anns a' chànan agamsa.