Rename to Copy And Paste Suburb?: Cut And Paste Suburb

The thread title's pretty self-explanatory. "Cut and Paste" implies one object is being moved. These houses are technically being copied.

mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really.

Not a lot to change.

Infinite Tree: an experimental story

Well, technically you can cut once, then paste a bunch of times.

Rhymes with "Protracted."

So you're saying that somewhere, there's a suburb with just an empty space in it? :D

Why does the OP think Cut and Paste does not allow multiple copies?

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I'm very "meh" about this. There's very little difference and not really that much.

Fight smart, not fair.

Well, yeah, you can "paste" multiple times from one "cut." But that still implies that the first lot on the block is empty, if that house was "cut" to "paste" over and over in all the other lots. Or are we "pasting" the original house back in its original lot?

mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really.

Agree that it should be Copy And Paste Suburb, or maybe Cookie Cutter Neighborhood (from the crowner). This trope was launched a year and a half ago, pretty lame development since, a few examples and no discussion or subpages.

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.

While technically incorrect, Cut and Paste is generally understandable, and many people do use it when they really mean Copy and Paste.

I agree — the phrase cut and paste to mean duplication seem much more common than the more correct copy and paste.

We've also got:

• Cut and Paste Comic
• Cut and Paste Environments

Which use the phrase to mean duplication. But we also have Cut And Paste Translation which is about commiting surgery against multiple series that are combined while being translated into another market. Or something like that.

My personal preference would be to swap it for the redirect Cookie Cutter Neighborhood.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

I would go with that, as it's the older term for this.

edited 22nd Jan '11 10:54:20 AM by DragonQuestZ

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"Older term?" That was my original name for the YKTTW.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-272628.html

Wow, so it is used in the outside world.

mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really.

Cookie Cutter Homes is the preexisting term for this I think, we should go with one of those two.

edited 22nd Jan '11 2:20:09 PM by Raso

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"Cookie cutter X" is a well-established term indicating that all the X's are extremely similar. The oldest citation I can find on Google Books after an(admittedly cursory) search is a book from 1956, quoting an article written in 1953: "In May 1953, he wrote an article called "The Transients," which chronicled the way the new cookie-cutter suburbs were becoming, as he put it, "the dormitory of the next managerial class. ..."

edited 22nd Jan '11 2:43:47 PM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

So...swap the name and redirect?

mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really.

Aww, I was hoping to get in on this discussion earlier about the technical variations between "cut and paste" versus "copy and paste".

Oh well. Maybe next time.

edited 28th Jan '11 1:17:25 AM by Stratadrake

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Time for a crowner between Cookie Cutter Houses, Neighborhood, Suburb, etc.?

mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really.