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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2188024, member: 112&quot;]David, let me ask you something. When you look up a word in the dictionary and see what the definition printed there is, do you accept that definition as being correct ? Or do you say to yourself - that&#039;s not right, that&#039;s not what that word means ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, that&#039;s what you are doing now. You are saying that you don&#039;t agree with the long established and long accepted definitions of the words type and variety because you don&#039;t think they are correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>And in numismatics that&#039;s a problem. And it is a problem because when people do that, when they start using words incorrectly and calling things by names/words that they are not, then in conversation nobody knows what you are really talking about. They think you&#039;re talking about one thing because they know the definition for the word/s you are using, when you are actually talking about something completely different.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;ll readily agree with you that this kind of thing happens a lot in numismatics. A lot of people use words completely incorrectly simply because they really don&#039;t know any better. We see it all the time here on the forum and it causes confusion and misunderstanding. And what&#039;s worse is that people who are new to the hobby and still trying to learn, are being taught bad information, incorrect facts. And they don&#039;t even know it.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why we have definitions to begin with, so everybody, anybody, when they see or hear a word used will know exactly what the other person is talking about. Otherwise chaos results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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