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  • Effective Advertising: Brand names as names of the products

    Tweet This very unoriginal thought just occurred to me today: people use brand names as the name of the product. Credit Here is the list of words I’d use on a regular basis: Kleenex = Facial Tissue Papers Band-Aid = Adhesive Bandages Chapstick = Lip […]

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  • Names that make you shudder

    Tweet Credit Simba was a pretty good name though. Names with Bad Associations Are there some names out there that make you go “UGH”? I’m not talking about baby names, I am talking about if for example you worked with a co-worker named Victoria (sorry […]

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  • What’s in a baby name?

    Tweet There is an American-Australian couple (white, if you must be specific), who named one of their three kids, a boy: Yo Xing Heyno Augustus Eisner Alexander Weiser Knuckles. (Read article here) Or for short, “Yo Xing”. He is not adopted at all. It sounded […]

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  • Why do companies give gadgets confusing names?

    Tweet Dell is awful for this. I don’t care what you say. I consider myself to be a fairly knowledgeable female geek (not an uber geek by any means), but I know how to read the specs of a laptop, and I know what RAM […]

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