I was wondering - while hoovering - whether some brand names crossed over to the language in japanese. Like hoovering in the UK for vacuum cleaning or kleenex for tissue in french for example. In France, for example, we call chocolate covered ice cream on a stick “eskimo” because of this brand, re…

Household brand names: are they used as nouns for things in Japanese?

Belthazar July 5, 2020, 11:04pm 8

Bad cat. Don’t eat the stapler.

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