You can absolutely call a glued paper which make to look as a sticker a sticker.
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Slow@lemmy.today 9 months agoI’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.
MxM111@kbin.social 9 months ago
Pothetato@lemmy.world 9 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 9 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.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If he manages to apply an easy removable layer to the gluey part, then the person will be holding a sticker in his hands.
It’s all about being able to carry it around without it sticking anywhere and to just stick it anywhere you like, after easily removing said layer.
Slow@lemmy.today 9 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 9 months ago
What if I remove the sticker (without tearing it somehow) and then reapply it with glue? Is it still a sticker?
Slow@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Interesting question. Typically, advertisers use cheap glue, which makes it impossible to carefully peel off the advertisement. The paper will definitely tear. However, if the paper has a polyethylene base and a special type of glue is used, then I think such an advertisement can be peeled off and called a sticker.
I just haven’t heard of anyone peeling off advertisements and sticking them back.Lophostemon@aussie.zone 9 months ago
What if I make a small collection of larger twig-type tree detritus, and glue it to a surface?
Note; is not the person who applies aforementioned adhesive label also a ‘sticker’ due to performance of said act?
xilophor@programming.dev 9 months ago
Clearly not, it’s a glueer!
Aremel@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You are right, I am just being pedantic.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
This is true to how it works in american English, yeah.
Pinklink@lemm.ee 9 months ago
All stickers initially didn’t have a sticky layer, then had one applied.