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On 2014-10-20 01:47, paul womack wrote:
> Don Schwartz wrote:
>>
>> On 10/19/2014 9:41 AM, JAMES THOMPSON wrote:
>>> It may just be me, but the words themselves seem contradictory. An
>>> object must be one thing or another. It can't be two different
>>> objects at the same time. Except when it means "exactly what I want
>>> it to mean."
>>>
>>> A scraper is one kind of tool, and a burnisher is another. And never
>>> the twain shall meet.
>>
>> The wording is misleading. It's a scraper burnisher ( i.e. a burnisher
>> for scrapers), not a burnisher / scraper.
>
> Indeed. "Adjectival noun". Like Fly swatter.

If the scrapers have ridges, then how could you burnish them? Can we 
burnish worn files?

Brent
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