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Message:: [QUOTE="Troodon, post: 1636314, member: 4626"]Eh, fair enough, I don't read a lot of auction listings so not familiar with the semantics they use.  Though I probably would have understood "heavy activity on the leg" more readily than "heavy leg activity" because the latter makes it sound like the leg is doing something, rather than something being done to the leg.  Sorry if I'm being too nitpicky but sometimes I can't help it; a big part of my experience in accounting and tax preparation is to take technical language and terms of art and translate it into language that any lay person can understand, and thus I take pains to avoid terms of art, jargon, and figurative language whenever possible.  "Activity" just sounds, well, active, and it's not like the coin is acquiring more marks, assuming it's being handled carefully, so more passive language seems appropriate.  And well, usually it just seems more clear when the subject (activity) precedes the object (the leg), which it did even in the example you quoted.  In college people had me proofread their papers all the time because I'd catch things like that. And well no such thing as a wrong opinion.  Your estimate of the grader's opinion may be wrong, and mine might be too, but well you gave your opinion on the grade, and I gave mine.  Will either of our opinions be the same as the grader's?  Guess we'll have to wait and see.[/QUOTE]