Legit Colombia 5 Pesos Gold Coin?

[RDHC]

Basically I'm with Lawrence over the meaning of 'real'. The word derives from the Latin 'res', meaning 'thing', i.e., as I take it, 'something that exists'. 'Genuine' or 'authentic' derives from the Greek 'authentikos'. Much depends upon the date of one's dictionary. I use the Concise Oxford, which goes back to 1911,  but was revised in 1929. It does not allow for the meaning of 'genuine' i.e. 'not fake or forged', which some more recent dictionaries might give as a secondary meaning of 'real'. Being rather old fashioned, and the wrong side of 75, I tend to favour the traditional or, as one might say, the established meaning of 'real'.

[stefffana]

6 minutes ago, RDHC said:

Basically I'm with Lawrence over the meaning of 'real'. The word derives from the Latin 'res', meaning 'thing', i.e., as I take it, 'something that exists'. 'Genuine' or 'authentic' derives from the Greek 'authentikos'. Much depends upon the date of one's dictionary. I use the Concise Oxford, which goes back to 1911,  but was revised in 1929. It does not allow for the meaning of 'genuine' i.e. 'not fake or forged', which some more recent dictionaries might give as a secondary meaning of 'real'. Being rather old fashioned, and the wrong side of 75, I tend to favour the traditional or, as one might say, the established meaning of 'real'.

 

 

I do agree as well. Also, in my previous comment, I haven't used the word "real", only "genuine".

Semantically, Lawrence and you are both 100% on the right side, absolutely nothing to argue about.

But please, be gentle with people who are asking questions from another side of this planet!

The forum member who started this thread is from Colombia, so his first language is not English language.

Kindest regards,

Stefan.🤗

[SidS]

1 hour ago, RDHC said:

Basically I'm with Lawrence over the meaning of 'real'. The word derives from the Latin 'res', meaning 'thing', i.e., as I take it, 'something that exists'. 'Genuine' or 'authentic' derives from the Greek 'authentikos'. Much depends upon the date of one's dictionary. I use the Concise Oxford, which goes back to 1911,  but was revised in 1929. It does not allow for the meaning of 'genuine' i.e. 'not fake or forged', which some more recent dictionaries might give as a secondary meaning of 'real'. Being rather old fashioned, and the wrong side of 75, I tend to favour the traditional or, as one might say, the established meaning of 'real'.

I was never aware of the difference to be totally honest, for real. 😁

But I've never been bothered about semantics and accuracy, I invariably assign my own meaning to words I don't know and use them totally inappropriately - which is not very pointful you might say.