[Greenbuilding] semantics

[Alan Abrams]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com> wrote:

> yahbut - referring to a countertop made of edge/vertical grain strips as a
> butcherblock is akin to referring to all bicycles as Penny Farthings, or to
> all chairs as ottomans. The common everyday wooden countertop reimagined
> or rebranded as the now nearly obsolete specialized commercial installation- weird.
>
>

t'is the invert of "genericide," in which a trademarked name becomes
generic.
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