Comment on new rule

• Slow@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Pinklink@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All stickers initially didn’t have a sticky layer, then had one applied.

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  • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can absolutely call a glued paper which make to look as a sticker a sticker.

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    • Pothetato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Slow@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Halosheep@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What if I remove the sticker (without tearing it somehow) and then reapply it with glue? Is it still a sticker?

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  • Aremel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You are right, I am just being pedantic.

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  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is true to how it works in american English, yeah.

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