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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2775746, member: 112"]And that's a good example of what I'm talking about - people using their own "personal" definitions. What happens when you do that, especially on a forum like this, or in written articles, vocal presentations, or just talking in person with another, is the people who are listening or reading think you mean one thing when you mean something entirely different because they have no idea what your "personal definitions" are. And then later, they repeat what you said to somebody else. Thus, bad information is propagated. </p><p><br /></p><p>That's exactly how things can get so screwed up sometimes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Traditionally, and correctly so the word dip, dipped, dipping, is only, stress only, used when one is talking about commercial coin dips - nothing else.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, over-dipped is just one of the many different ways that a coin can be harshly/improperly cleaned. In other words if a coin has been over-dipped it will be described as having been harshly/improperly cleaned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2775746, member: 112"]And that's a good example of what I'm talking about - people using their own "personal" definitions. What happens when you do that, especially on a forum like this, or in written articles, vocal presentations, or just talking in person with another, is the people who are listening or reading think you mean one thing when you mean something entirely different because they have no idea what your "personal definitions" are. And then later, they repeat what you said to somebody else. Thus, bad information is propagated. That's exactly how things can get so screwed up sometimes. Traditionally, and correctly so the word dip, dipped, dipping, is only, stress only, used when one is talking about commercial coin dips - nothing else. Also, over-dipped is just one of the many different ways that a coin can be harshly/improperly cleaned. In other words if a coin has been over-dipped it will be described as having been harshly/improperly cleaned.[/QUOTE]
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