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There are so many search engines out there and even chat bots to get info from. I refuse to let Google monopolize an action.

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[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 years ago

It’s not the first time — plenty of people still use “Xerox” to mean copy even if they obviously are not referring to a machine made by Xerox

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

In Russian, it's a generally used term "xerox it" ("отксерить") for when you need to copy some papers

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

In Poland it's called "ksero" all the time even though most people never even heard about the Xerox company

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

That’s really interesting actually, funny how languages evolve that way

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