Energy Drinks

[Sapphire]

What crazy people did they survey in Texas? They call it soda there..

[Buffalobiian]

http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/images/popsoda2.gif

I can deal with pop and soda, even if we don't call it by neither names here.

Coke is simply a headache.

Waiter: Would you like anything to drink sir?
aiteSir: Do you have any coke?
Waiter: Certainly. Which would you like?
aiteSir: Pepsi thanks.



It's like saying Toyota when you mean an automobile. :S

[XanBcoo]

What crazy people did they survey in Texas? They call it soda there..

Everyone I know calls it Coke.

But you're from around the Austin area, which is near the small "Soda" bit.

I can deal with pop and soda, even if we don't call it by neither names here.

Coke is simply a headache.

Waiter: Would you like anything to drink sir?
aiteSir: Do you have any coke?
Waiter: Certainly. Which would you like?
aiteSir: Pepsi thanks.

That's a phenomenon known broadly as a Synecdoche, or more specifically, Inductive Autonomasia.

I don't know what you call things in Australia, but most people will know what you mean when you Hoover the floor, or blow your nose with a Kleenex. Perhaps you write with a Biro?

If you ask for Coke in a restaurant, most waiters will ask for clarification, yes.

[Buffalobiian]

Everyone I know calls it Coke.

But you're from around the Austin area, which is near the small "Soda" bit.

That's a phenomenon known broadly as a Synecdoche, or more specifically, Inductive Autonomasia.

I don't know what you call things in Australia, but most people will know what you mean when you Hoover the floor, or blow your nose with a Kleenex. Perhaps you write with a Biro?

If you ask for Coke in a restaurant, most waiters will ask for clarification, yes.

Biro's the only one that more or less applies here. Still, I call it a pen, and I can't recall off the top of my head the last person I heard call it a Biro.

As for coke, here it's always called "soft drink". Coke will always mean Coca-Cola.

[XanBcoo]

Well those were just a few examples but it's a pretty widespread phenomenon. I'm sure Australia has its own set of brand names used in that sense. Wiki suggests that you might call a cooler an "Esky". Here's a more extensive list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...zed_trademarks

Edit: And it's a form of metonymy, not synecdoche. I always get those two confused.

[Buffalobiian]

Well those were just a few examples but it's a pretty widespread phenomenon. I'm sure Australia has its own set of brand names used in that sense. Wiki suggests that you might call a cooler an "Esky". Here's a more extensive list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...zed_trademarks

Edit: And it's a form of metonymy, not synecdoche. I always get those two confused.

Esky is a brand name for a cooler?!

My goodness..




I need to lie down or something..

[Kraco]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...zed_trademarks

That was enlightening. Earlier reading this thread I tried to come up with even a single trademark being used as a generic noun in Finnish but failed. But reading that list I spotted a few. Though Adrenalin surely beats the rest hands-down. Epinephrine simply doesn't exist in our language at all, nor in many others, I bet. I always thought the English speakers strange calling it epinephrine...

Over here carbonated soft drinks are called lemonade even if they contain no traces of lemon. I guess lemonade was the first such drink sold here and it stuck.

[shinta|hikari]

In the Philippines, most people call a photocopy machine a "Xerox" machine. They also call a refrigerator "frigider" (Frigidaire in Filipino accent). "Colgate" is also synonymous with toothpaste. "Jacuzzi" is also commonly used when referring to whirlpool bath tubs. "Coleman" is also used as a replacement for a water jug. Diapers are also usually dubbed as "Pampers." Another really funny one is how "Kodak" is used as a verb for taking pictures.

They also refer to all bottled water as "mineral water" even if it is distilled water.

There are other strange ones that don't involve brands at all. "Salvage" here means to ambush and kill someone, usually a popular figure. It is a wonder even to a Filipino like myself how the word now means almost exactly the opposite of what it originally meant.

I personally don't use these words, but I must admit that I am one of the more endangered types here.

[itadakimasu]

I'm still drinking lo-carb Monster. I've cut down some and try not to have one every day if possible

The last time I was in 7-11 buying a Monster, I noticed some new "Calm" drinks next to the energy drinks. There was one called "calm" and a puple can called " drank ". Both w\ the main active ingredients being Valerian Root, and Melatonin. I've yet to try them. Passing out at work didn't seem like a good idea.

[Sapphire]

Everyone I know calls it Coke.

Wha-what?! Are you serious?! No one I know calls it coke even if they're not from Austin! I must have lived in a different Texas than you.

/denial.

Also, on the topic of energy drinks, I used to love them. Now I hate them since they taste so syrupy and sugary. I'll drink one occasionally (people come on campus and hand them out to advertise) but nowadays stuff that's too sugary just makes me tired.

I also tried some weird alcoholic/energy beverage and it was probably the worst drink I'd ever had in my life. It tasted like orange tylenol. I had to taste it twice because I couldn't believe how bad it tasted the first time.

I'm really overly conscious about the sugar in foods now. It's so hard to avoid it. I've been really obsessed with Luna bars lately, since they're so good and they claim to be so healthy. Then I look at the nutritional value and while it has lots of vitamins it had 12 grams of sugar?! A gram is freakin huge. I've weighed it on a scale. The absurd amounts of sugars in things makes me sad.

Go juice though! (with no syrup)

On another note sometimes people call a tissue a kleenex when they really don't care what brand it is. And when people say they need a tylenol/aspirin I usually assume they don't care what the actual brand is.

[Buffalobiian]

Also, on the topic of energy drinks, I used to love them. Now I hate them since they taste so syrupy and sugary. I'll drink one occasionally (people come on campus and hand them out to advertise) but nowadays stuff that's too sugary just makes me tired.

That's why I drink the sugar-free variants. I don't mind the taste however.

On another note sometimes people call a tissue a kleenex when they really don't care what brand it is. And when people say they need a tylenol/aspirin I usually assume they don't care what the actual brand is.

In pharmacy here, we get taught everything using the official chemical name instead of the brand names, since brand names vary from regions/countries, but drug names don't.

"Adrenaline" and "aspirin" have been used here as the official name for as long as I remember. I have never seen the brand name Aspirin here.

[darkshadow]

I actually always say paracetamol, though most people here call every painkiller an Aspirin too. Adrenaline is also become a pretty generic word here.
But other then those 2 I don't think people use "brandnames" as generic wording here.

[Buffalobiian]

I actually always say paracetamol, though most people here call every painkiller an Aspirin too. Adrenaline is also become a pretty generic word here.
But other then those 2 I don't think people use "brandnames" as generic wording here.

Only acetylsalicylic acid should ever be called aspirin.

Paracetamol (also known as acetaminophen in other weird places ) is an entirely different thing.

[darkshadow]

I know, I also only use paracetamol, no acetylsalicylic acid or ibuprofen. What I meant was that most people here use Aspirin for everything.