• Slow@lemmy.today
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        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.

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          11 months ago

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

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          11 months ago

          You can absolutely call a glued paper which made to look as a sticker and glued to the surface a sticker.

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            11 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.

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              11 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.

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            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.

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              11 months 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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                11 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?

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                  11 months ago

                  You are right about something. The one who sticks advertisements and earns money from this is called a derivative word from the word “Sticker”. In english it would be something like “Stickers boy”. I don’t know how to translate this any other way.

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                11 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.