I’m not an english speaker. In my region, a sticker is considered to be paper that initially has a sticky layer. The paper that needs to be glued with glue from a tube is just paper.
You can but you’d be wrong. I hereby declare that a sticker is defined as having a back layer that you easily peel off, exposing the adhesive, before applying. If you create something to that effect, sticker. Otherwise, it’s just glued on paper.
K. But the person applying glue to paper and setting said paper would then be called a sticker. And the way language works, in a generation or two, the word sticker will then reference that glue-paper arrangement.
In my language it will sound like “Sticked advertisement” or “Sticked piece of paper”.
A sticker is a paper with a sticky layer that is applied to this paper at the factory.
I’m just talking about the difference in languages.
Slow@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I’m not an english speaker. In my region, a sticker is considered to be paper that initially has a sticky layer. The paper that needs to be glued with glue from a tube is just paper.
Pinklink@lemm.ee 7 months ago
All stickers initially didn’t have a sticky layer, then had one applied.
MxM111@kbin.social 7 months ago
You can absolutely call a glued paper which make to look as a sticker a sticker.
Pothetato@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can but you’d be wrong. I hereby declare that a sticker is defined as having a back layer that you easily peel off, exposing the adhesive, before applying. If you create something to that effect, sticker. Otherwise, it’s just glued on paper.
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 7 months ago
K. But the person applying glue to paper and setting said paper would then be called a sticker. And the way language works, in a generation or two, the word sticker will then reference that glue-paper arrangement.
Slow@lemmy.today 7 months ago
In my language it will sound like “Sticked advertisement” or “Sticked piece of paper”. A sticker is a paper with a sticky layer that is applied to this paper at the factory. I’m just talking about the difference in languages.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 7 months ago
What if I remove the sticker (without tearing it somehow) and then reapply it with glue? Is it still a sticker?
Aremel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You are right, I am just being pedantic.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
This is true to how it works in american English, yeah.