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<p>[QUOTE="Dawnno, post: 582096, member: 10171"][QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 581950, member: 5833"If D 35 is the only thing on the tag, that side is, by default, the obverse, the front, unless they were meant to be worn with the blank side out. Thought you were saying the band tags have a letter & number like yours, but something on the other side (the reverse) 'also', in addition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p><p>You understood right. I just used 'obverse' as 'reverse', as in the counterpart to the first side, but obverse also by definition means front, so the word itself is confusing. So the primary meaning is 'front' but the secondary meaning is 'whatever is opposite to the side you referred to first.' So the obverse to the obverse is the reverse side. Ain't English fun? Could I be more confusing? I'm just an unfrozen cave man lawyer and your world of words scares me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dawnno, post: 582096, member: 10171"][QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 581950, member: 5833"If D 35 is the only thing on the tag, that side is, by default, the obverse, the front, unless they were meant to be worn with the blank side out. Thought you were saying the band tags have a letter & number like yours, but something on the other side (the reverse) 'also', in addition.[/QUOTE] You understood right. I just used 'obverse' as 'reverse', as in the counterpart to the first side, but obverse also by definition means front, so the word itself is confusing. So the primary meaning is 'front' but the secondary meaning is 'whatever is opposite to the side you referred to first.' So the obverse to the obverse is the reverse side. Ain't English fun? Could I be more confusing? I'm just an unfrozen cave man lawyer and your world of words scares me.[/QUOTE]
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