[lit-ideas] Re: GRE Registration
- From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 19:29:28 -0400
So if you have a full length piece of 8.5X11 piece of paper, and there's a
piece of the corner, is the rest of the piece of paper scratch paper or scrap
paper? Does it have to be a perfect piece of paper in order to be scratch
paper? Or does the difference between scratch and scrap merely have to do with
the difference between having an intent to use the paper for something and
having no intent to use the paper for something merely using it as the piece of
paper that's just "nearby" and present for you to write on at a whim? If it's
just how you intend to you the paper then you can really only know what to call
it after you've used it, no?
Why am I here.
Erin
Toronto
Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
> Okay. There's a distinction here. Scratch paper is paper for working out
>
> sums or writing rough drafts. Whole pieces of paper; paper that is not
> quality paper; recycled, newsprint paper, paper already used on one side,
> etc.
> Deliberately chosen to scratch on. Scrap paper is the odd scrap, not an
> entire
> 8 1/2 x 11, sometimes a tiny triangle torn off of an envelope, piece of
> something you can scribble a phone number, etc., on. It can be the back of
> a
> dry-cleaning ticket, a bit of grocery receipt, anything. Any more semantic
>
> hairs you wanna split?
>
> Julie Krueger
> ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: GRE Registration
>
> Date: 5/12/05 5:59:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time From:
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> I'll settle this. It's scrap paper.
>
>
> Erin
> TO
>
>
>
> Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
>
> > I just asked my 7th grader what she called a piece of paper she works her
>
>
> > sums on that doesn't get turned in -- she immediately said "scratch
> paper".
> >
> > She also said that's what her friends would call it. This is somehow
> > faintly
> > reminiscent of the sub/poor boy/hoagie thread of aeons ago .... or was
>
> that
> >
> > even this list?
> >
> > Julie Krueger
> > wasting time.....
> >
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