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Mary
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| Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:00 pm
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What's the difference between a banner and a poster?
Among all kinds of ad that we see on the street, what can be
said to be a banner but not a poster, or a poster but not a
banner, or either a poster or a banner is fine?
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Skitt
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Don Phillipson
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:49 am
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"Mary" <mary@bermuda.com> wrote in message
news:9132p012t1j9f1hue9b02ksl0409elqdur@4ax.com...
| Quote: | What's the difference between a banner and a poster?
Among all kinds of ad that we see on the street, what can be
said to be a banner but not a poster, or a poster but not a
banner, or either a poster or a banner is fine?
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The main meaning of banner is a flag, viz. a
coloured or patterned textile that hangs free (and
can move in the wind.) A poster is usually paper
stuck to a solid background.
A secondary use of banner emerged with early
computer printers, to mean a poster larger than
one page, usually made by printing a roll of paper
in "landscape" style.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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Steve Hayes
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 6:07 am
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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:32:35 -0500, Mary <mary@bermuda.com> wrote:
| Quote: | What's the difference between a banner and a poster?
Among all kinds of ad that we see on the street, what can be
said to be a banner but not a poster, or a poster but not a
banner, or either a poster or a banner is fine?
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A banner is landscape and a poster is portrait.
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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Stan Brown
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:02 pm
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"Mary" <mary@bermuda.com> wrote in alt.usage.english:
| Quote: | What's the difference between a banner and a poster?
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A banner is attached at two corners and the other two float free; a
poster is attached to a rigid surface at all four corners.
Usually, but not necessarily, a banner is considerably wider than t
is high; a poster is usually higher than it is wide.
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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"And if you're afraid of butter, which many people are nowa-
days, (long pause) you just put in cream." --Julia Child |
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jerry_friedman@yahoo.com
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:16 am
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Mary wrote:
| Quote: | What's the difference between a banner and a poster?
Among all kinds of ad that we see on the street, what can be
said to be a banner but not a poster, or a poster but not a
banner, or either a poster or a banner is fine?
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A banner bans a poster's posts.
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Jerry Friedman notes that the question has been answered by others. |
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Steve Hayes
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:38 pm
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:48:53 -0500, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm>
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| Quote: | "Mary" <mary@bermuda.com> wrote in alt.usage.english:
What's the difference between a banner and a poster?
A banner is attached at two corners and the other two float free; a
poster is attached to a rigid surface at all four corners.
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Would you describe as a "poster" something that is stretched across a street
and attached at all four corners to buildings or poles on either side?
What about something attached to a surface with glue, which led to the
persecution of William Posters alias William Stickers?
What about something attached to a lamppost with string, with nothing on the
corners?
| Quote: | Usually, but not necessarily, a banner is considerably wider than t
is high; a poster is usually higher than it is wide.
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I think that is the essential difference. Also, a poster is usually attached
to a rigid surface -- a board, or a wall. A banner is flexible.
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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Roland Hutchinson
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Don Phillipson wrote:
| Quote: | A secondary use of banner emerged with early
computer printers, to mean a poster larger than
one page, usually made by printing a roll of paper
in "landscape" style.
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One suspects that this meaning has some connection to the earlier "banner
headline" found in newspapers (i.e. one in large letters across the entire
width of the page). The original transfer of meaning to computers must
have been to the similar-appearing user and/or job name or number printed
in huge lettering across the wide lineprinter page at the beginning of a
printout (both identifying the owner of the printout and allowing the
operators to easily spot the place to burst the continuous-form paper to
separate one job's output from another).
I note that on the machine I'm using to send this article, CUPS (the Common
UNIX Printing System) offers the option to print a "banner page" with any
print job. It comes out in portrait format on my laser printer, and the
type is not really huge, but the name has stuck. Other current printing
systems offer the same facility.
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Roland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food.
NB mail to my.spamtrap [at] verizon.net is heavily filtered to
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JC Dill
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 10:07 pm
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:49:11 -0500, "Don Phillipson"
<d.phillipson@ttrryytteell.com> wrote:
| Quote: | A secondary use of banner emerged with early
computer printers, to mean a poster larger than
one page, usually made by printing a roll of paper
in "landscape" style.
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There are also banner ads, the horizontal format ad placed at the top
of many ad-sponsored webpages.
jc |
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Stan Brown
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:07 am
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"Steve Hayes" <hayesmstw@hotmail.com> wrote in alt.usage.english:
| Quote: | On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:48:53 -0500, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm
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"Mary" <mary@bermuda.com> wrote in alt.usage.english:
What's the difference between a banner and a poster?
A banner is attached at two corners and the other two float free; a
poster is attached to a rigid surface at all four corners.
Would you describe as a "poster" something that is stretched across a street
and attached at all four corners to buildings or poles on either side?
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No, because it's attached to _two_ rigid surfaces. :-)
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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"And if you're afraid of butter, which many people are nowa-
days, (long pause) you just put in cream." --Julia Child |
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