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Originally Posted by dvdrip  We domainers like to use the word "generic" in the same way we use the word "dictionary".
We don't say asfsdgerhfng is generic. OK? We say olives is. Get it now?
"generic" is not used like how it's used in drugs or any other field. |
I see, how delightful. When wrong, simply state that you use the word to mean something that it just doesn't actually mean! What a fabulous rhetorical device.
You have every right to call tzatziki sauce "sperm," but it still isn't gonna get anyone pregnant.
This sub-forum
presumably exists (among other reasons) so that domainers may learn something from lawyers who choose to donate their time to educating them. It would be very easy to simply change the meaning of words so that the words then fit your arguments, but that won't persuade a complainant's lawyer, nor will it persuade an arbitrator. Perhaps this has something to do with the bad luck you may have had with arbitrators in the past -- you're simply operating under a different lexicon?
If you want to say "dictionary word," then say "dictionary word." "Generic" has a legal meaning, and "generic" terms are never subject to trademark protection. Calling a domain "generic," misleads others into thinking it might have a legal status that it lacks -- thus frustrating the entire purpose of the legal forum (presuming that I am correct about its purpose).
I realize, from your many comments on here, that you have no intention of learning anything. That kind of commitment to a position can be both admirable and stupid, depending on when and how it is employed. I would simply hope that for the sake of others who might actually wish to learn something, maybe you could either learn what words *really* mean. Alternatively, caveat your responses that use words in some creative made-to-fit-an-argument manner, so that those who are here to try and learn something are not misled.
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Originally Posted by Dave Zan But doesn't that give folks here the impression that something generic means
that way for any and all descriptions of the word? While some domainers do
not (maybe) don't think like that, what's to stop especially newbies from taking
that line of thinking and being possibly wrong? |
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On the side, Marc, I think "some" might be a more accurate word than "most"
instead as I don't know exactly how many DNF users here think like that. But
of course, you can figure out the right words to say on your own.
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How about we split the difference and use the term "
many" ?