Timeline for What do we call these 'squeezed' papers?
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| Dec 3, 2015 at 9:52 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | Got it! Sorry for talking about this too long. It's just that I'm interested in Sanskrit, too. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 9:51 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | The Vamana avatar is used in the more common sense of the word, I think, that is "an incarnated being", as a noun. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 9:51 | comment | added | Maulik V | Ah, a modern day example - we have 'gravatar' graphic avatar where you can change yourself into a cartoonish character! Hundreds of applications available to change your avatar! That is, appearance. @DamkerngT. Aw..this is getting long and probably we are digressing. We'll talk sometime on this. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 9:49 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | Interesting. This use of avatar to mean the dorm or the shape of anything in Sanskrit is new to me. The sense that I'm familiar with roughly means "to incarnate" or "to die" as in a supreme being leaving their current state in order to descend to our earth. I still doubt if it's really felicitous in Sanskrit. Perhaps I may post it as a question when we have a Sanskrit stack. (Too bad that its proposal didn't survive!) | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 9:49 | comment | added | Maulik V | Interesting - Vamana (dwarf) avatar of Vishnu in which he completely changed his form and became a dwarf and then grew the size of the sky! | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 9:40 | comment | added | Maulik V | Stick to 'avatar'. Because to make others understand, I added 'changed'. Avatar is Sanskrit but its meaning 'to change from its primary appearance' is in Sanskrit, Guajrati, Marathi..and could be a few more languages. @DamkerngT. It was a metaphor - non-living things don't have avatar! that's the reason, I said loses its original shape, size, texture, form i.e. avatar | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 9:36 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | So, is "avatar changed" for paper in Hindi or in Sanskrit or both? -- BTW, I know that sense of the word, 'cause the full name of the city I live in has the word "avatar" in it. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 9:22 | comment | added | Maulik V | cont... Here is the original use of 'avatar' wherein the Lord Vishnu took 10 different avatars for the purpose to restore cosmic order. Note that the god had taken an avatar of fish, tortoise, half man-half lion, dwarf...and many more. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 9:15 | comment | added | Maulik V | Avatar is basically an incarnation or say -a birth of Indian gods and goddesses on the earth for a particular mission/reason. But since Hindus do identify 'faces' of their gods, the almighty change their avatar i.e. size, shape, face (and even their *form of their appearance i.e. human-like figure') etc. to remain unidentified. Thus, the word extends its meaning. And now, even in many local languages, this word is used when something is changed from its original form. It's a long discussion short though! even @DamkerngT. can change avatar in that sense! cont... | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 8:04 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | @MaulikV Are you sure that that use of avatar (avatar changed) is in Sanskrit? Could it be that it's in some other language that borrowed or derived the word from Sanskrit? -- I'm not saying that I know Sanskrit, though. I'm just curious about it. | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 6:01 | vote | accept | Maulik V | ||
| Dec 3, 2015 at 4:53 | comment | added | Maulik V | @sgroves job! :) When linguists derive any word from any other language, they retain the meaning. It's irony that James Cameron used it first for its 'one' meaning and the natives have been following it ever since! Since native speakers seem to be interested in its meaning, let me tell you. The one that loses its original shape, traditional looks, size, or becomes entirely different is called 'avatar changed'. Now, it's your take -learn it or trash it. I won't call this 'job' for you at all! | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 22:59 | comment | added | user428517 | @MaulikV no. If you're speaking english, you're speaking english. "avatar" only has a few meanings in english. it doesn't mean whatever you're using it to mean, period. the entire point of language is to be understood. native speakers are the ones who know the language best. your job is to learn to speak like they do. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 16:00 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | Those are origami rocks. ;) | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 15:06 | comment | added | Ben | Bing image search for "Crumpled paper", "screwed-up paper", "wadded paper" and "scrunched up paper" all produce similar images. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 14:52 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | @Ben It's British English vs. American English, perhaps? | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 14:45 | comment | added | Ben | @DamkerngT. to "wad" is to pack tightly. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 12:00 | comment | added | Pharap | I'm going to take a wild guess that 'avatar' is being confused with 'shape' since both can refer to the 'physical form' of something. The difference is that 'avatar' typically means the physical incarnation of a deity in hinduism, whereas a 'shape' is the physical form of a real world object. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 4:44 | comment | added | Maulik V | exactly @ToddWilcox. So, this means 'avatar' has many other meanings those are not yet known to native speakers or at least are 'strange' to them. | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 22:05 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | @TRomano Yeah but now I want to start using the word "avatar" in strange ways. I'm sure when I do, people will get funny looks on their avatars. Maybe when I go to the dry cleaners I'll ask them if they can give my shirts back their avatar. It's just a cool word. | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 17:10 | comment | added | Maulik V | TRomano it's in my mother tongue and also in sanskrit from where it's derived. So here, nativeness may not work. And I confirm this. :-) | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 15:19 | answer | added | Zessa | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 15:03 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/671706246442041345 | ||
| Dec 1, 2015 at 14:28 | answer | added | Ilessa | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 14:10 | comment | added | TimR | BTW, you are using the word avatar incorrectly. | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 10:53 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | A possible alternative with wad: I wad the paper up; a wad of paper; wadded balls of paper | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 10:22 | answer | added | Zap | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 8:58 | answer | added | Caroffrey | timeline score: 77 | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 8:54 | answer | added | Riley Francisco | timeline score: 10 | |
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