Timeline for Is "facebook" as a verb different from "google" or "photoshop"?
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| Feb 3, 2011 at 18:43 | comment | added | o0'. | In soviet Russia, your arse photoshops you. | |
| Nov 27, 2010 at 5:05 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | Interestingly, none of the eleven meanings given on Merriam-Webster (see RegDwight's answer) can be directly replaced with "communicate". :-) | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 18:33 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | @nohat: it depends. In Russian, the shop part in Photoshop bears a striking resemblance to "жопа" ([ʒo̞pə]), which means arse. Needless to say, everyone and his grandma mocks Photoshop by only slightly mispronouncing it as Photozhop (photobutt). It's strictly colloquial, and even vulgar, but all in all, when in Russia, I'd hear (and use) both pronunciations equally often. It's so common that people actually say "Let's photoarse our wedding pictures, honey!" without even noticing. I wonder how Adobe feels about that. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 6:50 | comment | added | crowleywilson | "Communicate" sounds very broad, and doesn't match up well with these examples: I facebooked a photo of my friend (uploaded?) I facebooked an event for next week (confirmed?) I can't facebook at work (social network?) I facebooked you, but I can't find you (facebook search) etc... | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 1:51 | comment | added | Manjima | A "US" domain-specific search on Google ("facebooking"site:.us")gave me 4020 search results. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 1:39 | comment | added | delete | Do you have any evidence (real examples) of people using "facebook" to mean "communicate using the facebook brand social networking website"? | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 0:55 | comment | added | nohat | GIMP may be the most unfortunately named piece of software ever. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 0:54 | history | edited | nohat | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 26, 2010 at 0:19 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | @Kosmonaut: some geeks insist on saying "gimp" instead of photoshop, but I think it's safe to say that they are too late to the party. However, from all I can tell, "binging" is on the rise right now. Of course, many use it tongue-in-cheek, but that's how it often starts. | |
| Aug 26, 2010 at 0:02 | comment | added | Kosmonaut | And in the case of the first two, google is in danger (danger to the brand name) of meaning "search using any search engine" and photoshop is in danger of becoming "edit/modify a photo using any software". | |
| Aug 25, 2010 at 23:39 | history | answered | nohat | CC BY-SA 2.5 |