[Ads-l] "Dead-tree"

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It sounds normal to me, but perhaps is losing currency as a new generation grows up in which non-dead-tree forms are not novel.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead_tree#English <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead_tree#English>
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dead_tree <https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dead_tree> 

BB

> On 27 Oct 2018, at 13:45, Parish, James <jparish at SIUE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> This may have been discussed on-list before; if so, my apologies.
> 
> On Wednesday, I posted a take-home midterm for one of my classes, and 
> informed the students that I would accept "either electronic or 
> dead-tree" versions of their work. They found "dead-tree" vastly 
> amusing, and my attempt to justify my use of the words even more so. 
> (The phrase "perfectly standard... slang" played a role.)
> 
> In some of the circles I move in, "dead-tree" is the usual adjective 
> used to describe non-electronic texts. I don't know, however, how 
> widespread the use is. What say you?
> 
> Jim Parish

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