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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1253834, member: 112"]Conder's answer is correct and doesn't require any further explanation. I am merely responding because of your choice of words in your response. Mostly because it's a pet peeve of mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's your use of the word/phrase - laser-whizzed. It's stuff like that is partially responsible for causing people to misunderstand things entirely. In the first place the two words are completely contradictory. Whizzing a coin covers the coin with fine scratches - lasering a coin removes fine scratches.</p><p><br /></p><p>But other readers come along and read that, and pretty soon they are using the term too. Then somebody else sees it, and they use it on some other forum. And once something is seen in print, no matter how wrong it is, it comes to be accepted. That is not good for the hobby. So hopefully, if somebody reads that, they will also read this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1253834, member: 112"]Conder's answer is correct and doesn't require any further explanation. I am merely responding because of your choice of words in your response. Mostly because it's a pet peeve of mine. It's your use of the word/phrase - laser-whizzed. It's stuff like that is partially responsible for causing people to misunderstand things entirely. In the first place the two words are completely contradictory. Whizzing a coin covers the coin with fine scratches - lasering a coin removes fine scratches. But other readers come along and read that, and pretty soon they are using the term too. Then somebody else sees it, and they use it on some other forum. And once something is seen in print, no matter how wrong it is, it comes to be accepted. That is not good for the hobby. So hopefully, if somebody reads that, they will also read this.[/QUOTE]
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