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    Brand Language Entry #0479

    The reason a product becomes a verb

    A name used as a verb has won the category and endangered itself. Total familiarity is the point at which a mark starts to describe rather than distinguish.

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    The hidden part #0479

    A mark works by distinguishing. When everyone uses it to describe the category, it has stopped distinguishing anything.

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