tag

[bieasy]

Hi,

Is the following sentence correct?

A tag of all the teams is included in the magazine.

 

[Barb_D]

What is a tag? How is there one of all the teams?

 

[bieasy]

What is a tag? How is there one of all the teams?

Maybe 'sticker' is better???

 

[Rover_KE]

We need more context, bieasy.

Tell us in more detail what you want to say.

Rover

 

[BobK]

Hi,

Is the following sentence correct?

A tag of all the teams is included in the magazine.

Newspapers that do this [that is, what I think is going on] typically say something like 'Today's magazine features a full breakdown of all the players'. Is that what you mean?

Informally, colloquially, this might be called a 'crib': 'Pass me the Times - I think there's a World Cup crib in it this week.'

(The word 'tag' seems to have been monopolized by Facebook! The words 'You have been tagged' used to mean 'a physical means of identification has been attached to you' [unless you were playing Tag]. Now it means 'someone has marked a photograph with your name'] ;-)

b

 

[Barb_D]

Thanks Bob. I would never have known that!

 

[konungursvia]

Newspapers that do this [that is, what I think is going on] typically say something like 'Today's magazine features a full breakdown of all the players'. Is that what you mean?

Informally, colloquially, this might be called a 'crib': 'Pass me the Times - I think there's a World Cup crib in it this week.'

(The word 'tag' seems to have been monopolized by Facebook! The words 'You have been tagged' used to mean 'a physical means of identification has been attached to you' [unless you were playing Tag]. Now it means 'someone has marked a photograph with your name'] ;-)

b

In IT, the term 'tag' often refers to metadata, normally invisible, which describes what kind of data something is in human terms. An example would be the html tag <I> which means italics begin here. Another example: <link rel="author">Shakespeare</a> tells the computer that the string Shakespeare will be seen as an author type bit of data.

Facebook uses tags to identify photos in human terms as well.

I'm not sure about journalism or the use in the example.