Australopithecus scobis wrote:

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:50:34 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:

If something is a functional substitute for rag- or pulp- based paper,
made from a synthetic polymeric material then I see no reason to call it
anything but "paper", or, if you are going to buy some and want the
polymeric kind and not the rag- or pulp-based kind calling it "plastic
paper" just as you would "rag paper" or "pulp paper".

It's called spun olefin and it's used in rite-in-the-rain brand notebooks.
Oceanographers use it for field notes because it's waterproof. Been around
for years. We call it "paper."

There's that, (nice stuff by the way, I inadvertently washed my field
notebook once--came through it just fine), but there's another material
I've seen that seems to be more like thin sheets of solid plastic--seems to
work as well as the spun olefin but has a distinctly different "feel".

By the way, do you have a good source that doesn't charge 50 cents a sheet?

Cellulose is a polymer. Plastics are polymers. OP was barking up the wrong
tree.

OOF.

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