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I've just learned of this term but it is perhaps nothing new to many here. m-w.com turns up zip on this, dictionary.com too. The term is apparently fairly well known amongst publishers though. It is defined here www.gpcpapers.com/glossary.cfm as follows:
"The mass of a unit area of paper or board determined by the standard method of test: it is expressed in g/m2."
So is it etymologically related to 'grammar', and does this mean that correct writing carries more weight?
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does this mean that correct writing carries more weight?
Actually, correct writing carries less weight, B-Y, because there is less of it when it's done correctly. That's speaking volumetrically*, of course.
Have you noticed? The best writers can speak volumes without writing volumes. Publishers love that. It saves them a lot of grammage. [I wonder if there is a connection between "grammage" and "dunnage". Newspapers took their masthead from sailing ships so maybe they took their dunnage from that source as well. No-one wants to add ballast to a newspaper. It's just dead weight.]
* But qualitatively? Who could disagree with you? :)
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was this so obvious that it was deemed to be misleading? Basis Weight: The weight in pounds of a ream of paper. Its metric counterpart is grammage, where mass per unit area is expressed in units of grams per square meter. -ron o. : ) edit: http://home.inter.net/eds/paper/grammage.html
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Its metric counterpart is grammage, where mass per unit area is expressed in units of grams per square meter.
You just sunk my sailing ship theory, tsuwm. :(
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> was this so obvious that it was deemed to be misleading?
Pardon me good man, I was merely looking to find out who uses or knows the word (and unit of m.) as it does seem thinly spread; and also to ascertain whether or not it is considered a useful coinage, rather than using 'basic weight' say. Sounds a little clunky to me and I don't know it, dat's all. [huff]
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In some of the older versions of MS Word, when there was a big push for metrification in the US, the spell check function would display something like this:
< Tools, Spelling and Grammar >
Readability Statistics
Readability
Passive Sentences 6%
Flesch Reading Ease 67.1
Grammage 874.2 g/m2
What are the FRE units anyway?
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Grammage Spammage, mathcats, gimmie grammage on this...
Note: With deference to the quirks of the Faldage,
whose trap is tripped when the screen goes wideeeeeeee,
I'll defer this puzzle to a new thread. See Grammage Spammage.
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sorry crispy-by, just reacting here to the notion that it's any more than it is. and for the record, gram is from the Greek word for for 'a small weight' (the L. gramma is the closest I can come), and grammar comes from classical L. and Gr. (grammatica in L.) denoting the methodical study of literature.
and so (misleadingly) it's not to be confused with grandmother/grandma/gramma/gram(s) either. : )
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Grammage Spammage
A classic example of high cost/benefit ratio.
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