Soda vs. Soda

[rubah]

I fixed the poll.

[Madame Adequate]

I fixed the poll.

Sickening. Absolutely sickening.

[rubah]

Hey, what can I say. It's a good map :neko:

[Breine]

I say soda.

Also, coke has always been coca cola to me. Didn't know it could be a general term for soft drinks?

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Also, coke has always been coca cola to me. Didn't know it could be a general term for soft drinks?

It can't, really.

[rubah]

stop defining english with your snobbery and start defining it by how it is used

[Breine]

Also, coke has always been coca cola to me. Didn't know it could be a general term for soft drinks?

It can't, really.

Thought so.

[Jessweeee♪]

I haven't heard "coke" used when referring to soda in general for some time! Heard it both in the north and south all the time when I was little, though.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

stop defining english with your snobbery and start defining it by how it is used

Using brand names as generic terms is an insidious claw of monopolism upon any free market society. Why do you hate honest trade, Allison?

[Madame Adequate]

stop defining english with your snobbery and start defining it by how it is used

Using brand names as generic terms is an insidious claw of monopolism upon any free market society. Why do you hate honest trade, Allison?

If a product is successful enough to become a genericized trademark I'd say that's pretty much the free market in operation right there.

[Leeza]

Pop is the correct answer. Soda is the clear sparkling water drink that has nothing to do with pop.

[Jessweeee♪]

stop defining english with your snobbery and start defining it by how it is used

Using brand names as generic terms is an insidious claw of monopolism upon any free market society. Why do you hate honest trade, Allison?

Well who wants to say "adhesive bandage" when you can just say "Band-Aid"?

[Madame Adequate]

Pop is the correct answer. Soda is the clear sparkling water drink that has nothing to do with pop.

That's called sparkling water.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

If a product is successful enough to become a genericized trademark I'd say that's pretty much the free market in operation right there.

You could claim any monopoly is justified, but there's such a thing as too much capitalism. When market leaders become self-perpetuating machines to the exclusion and suppression of any and all competition, intervention is necessary to restore the honesty of the system. This is why we have antitrust laws, and also why anyone who refers to every soda as "Coke" requires swift and decisive reëducation (or maybe just education in the first place).

[eestlinc]

any ever call it all pepsi?

I don't think the majority of people in Seattle call it pop. I hear it from time to time but I kill those people so whatever proportion of he population here says "pop" is surely declining.