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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Seattlite86, post: 2500513, member: 59737&quot;]I&#039;m not discounting your statements on some of the way people respond to incorrect terminology or questions.&nbsp; Some of them can be pretty rude.&nbsp; When someone made a thread about coin collecting pet peeves, I actually wrote this &quot;3. People who insult new or upcoming collectors who post what we know to be dumb questions and risk chasing them away from numismatics&quot; here&#039;s the link for it<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-are-your-coin-coin-collecting-pet-peeves.280634/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-are-your-coin-coin-collecting-pet-peeves.280634/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-are-your-coin-coin-collecting-pet-peeves.280634/</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>So I agree, but I also disagree.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember that just as the military has different terminologies than civilians, so does numismatics.&nbsp; Heck, even between branches, in the Army we call an E6 Sergeant even though we know he&#039;s a Staff Sergeant.&nbsp; I did that with a Marine E6 and he promptly corrected me that it&#039;s &quot;Staff Sergeant&quot;.&nbsp; The dictionary definition for fake is not the same as the numismatic definition.&nbsp; In a numismatic forum like this, it is important that we distinguish between the two.&nbsp; So please understand that I also will be correcting you if you use the word fake instead of altered surfaces, just as I would hope someone corrects me when I confuse die chips for cuds (which I did for quite a while). </p><p><br /></p><p>I would recommend ignoring those who offend you (I&#039;ve got several people on my ignore list) and do your best to learn and keep teaching others when they need to learn.&nbsp; Use the right terminology, even if you&#039;re not going to explain it, because a newbie needs to learn the right lingo.</p><p><br /></p><p>And have a great day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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