Comment on new rule
Aremel@lemmy.world 11 months agoDoes the application of glue to paper not make that paper a sticker?
Comment on new rule
Aremel@lemmy.world 11 months agoDoes the application of glue to paper not make that paper a sticker?
Slow@lemmy.today 11 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 11 months ago
All stickers initially didn’t have a sticky layer, then had one applied.
MxM111@kbin.social 11 months ago
You can absolutely call a glued paper which make to look as a sticker a sticker.
Pothetato@lemmy.world 10 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 10 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 11 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 10 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 11 months ago
You are right, I am just being pedantic.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
This is true to how it works in american English, yeah.