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Originally Posted by CoolBec
^ I don't have to look it up, I know full well what a sonnet is thank you very much. As I've said, I was using the term in a very generic and informal context, so we'll just have to agree to disagree...m'kay?!
(Btw...I also call all copier machines Xerox's, which is also technically incorrect)  |
If you did, you wouldn't be calling your poem a sonnet then, now would you?
I call all facial tissue "Kleenex" and all cotton swabs "Q-tips" too. But when a brand name becomes completely synonymous with an entire product type is hardly the same as just calling something by the wrong name. If I called a villanelle a sonnet, it would be wrong.