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Do you use a sellotape dispenser? I have to create an original tape dispenser and draw its blueprint as my class assignment. However, I hardly use a sellotape, so I can't come up with what functions are convenient.
Do you have any idea for convenient functions? What is frustrating when you use a sellotape?

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Jan. 8, 2021

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Do you use a sellotape dispenser?


Do you use a sellotape dispenser? Do you use a tape dispenser?

"Sellotape" is a brand name of a specific type of tape. Sometimes in English, these names do become the name for certain items. (Band-aid is one example.) Sellotape is one of these types of names, but only in Britain. So that's why, I think saying tape dispenser is better, because it is the more commonly used name everywhere.

I have to create an original tape dispenser and draw its blueprint as my class assignment.


I have to create an original tape dispenser and draw its blueprint as myfor a class assignment. I have to create an original tape dispenser and draw its blueprint for a class assignment.

However, I hardly use a sellotape, so I can't come up with what functions are convenient.


However, I hardly use a sellotape, so I can't come up with what functions are convenient. However, I hardly use tape, so I can't come up with what functions are convenient.

"A sellotape" is wrong, because tape is an object which does not have individual units. Saying "a sheep" means there is one sheep. Saying "a sellotape" would mean there is one tape, but that doesn't really mean anything, because tape can be any length.

Do you have any idea for convenient functions?


Do you have any ideas for convenient functions? Do you have any ideas for convenient functions?

What is frustrating when you use a sellotape?


What is frustrating when you use a sellotape? What is frustrating when you use tape?

Same correction as before for "a sellotape".

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