XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english
On 5/29/2024 4:10 AM, Ross Clark wrote:
"The world's first moving-step machine...demonstrated at a Paris trade
fair in 1900..."
The trademark was registered by Charles Seeberger, who worked for the
Otis Elevator Company.
"The use of capital letters and inverted commas shows the word's special status." (Crystal)
BUT fifty years later (in _Haughton Elevator Co. v. Seeberger_), Otis
lost the rights because the court ruled the word had become generic.
"A crucial piece of evidence was the way Otis itself was using it, in
such advertisements as:
To thousands of building owners and managers, the Otis trademark
means the utmost in safe, efficient economical elevator and
escalator operation."
Elevator: In French, an elevator is called l'ascenseur (masc.)
Escalator: An escalator in French is l'escalier mécanique
(masculine noun, pronounced "les-ka-LYEH may-kah-NEEK").
It literally translates to "the mechanical staircase."
(French: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
Elevator to the Gallows
Not Rated 1958 ‧ Crime/Noir ‧ 1h 31m
Elevator to the Gallows also known as Frantic in the US and Lift to the Scaffold in the UK, is a 1958 French crime thriller film directed by
Louis Malle, ...
Elevator to the Gallows (French: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud), also known
as Frantic in the US and Lift to the Scaffold in the UK, is a 1958
French crime thriller film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne
Moreau and Maurice Ronet as illicit lovers whose murder plot starts to
unravel after one of them becomes trapped ...
----------- possibly the best Music (for film) of all time.
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