• Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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    9 months ago

    Vaseline, Velcro, Mace and Styrofoam aren’t generic? The fuck? I didn’t even know those were trademarked names. Vaseline maybe, but the other three are common enough that I was sure they were generic.

      • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        It was previously commercialized as Lightning Fastener in NA, or hookless fastener in contrast with previous “technology”.

        Non-english languages sometimes have other words for it, if they encountered it before the Zipper was widespread. In Spanish we have cremallera and cierre. Old timers say fecho-de-correr or “fecho eclair” in Portuguese, referring to another patent holder Éclair Prestil.