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minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months agoHmm, maybe the info you’re missing is that “paperwork” is a concrete thing? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paperwork Like, that’s the whole joke, that the skin is papery and its removal is tedious, so you could also refer to the removal as “paperwork”.
minus-squareScipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoOh I’m aware of paper but didn’t associate papery things with … Well paper itself I guess that’s the flaw. I wouldn’t describe a tree as having a wooden expression either!
Hmm, maybe the info you’re missing is that “paperwork” is a concrete thing?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paperwork
Like, that’s the whole joke, that the skin is papery and its removal is tedious, so you could also refer to the removal as “paperwork”.
Oh I’m aware of paper but didn’t associate papery things with … Well paper itself I guess that’s the flaw. I wouldn’t describe a tree as having a wooden expression either!