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Rotter Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Swipe or insert

When you buy something using your debit card, it is a swipe. I mean you swipe your card.
Nowadays shops have a different device where you insert the card.

Is it stil correct to use the words 'swipe the card'?
How do you say this?
  

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To me, if you tell me to swipe, I don't let go of it, and I run it either horizontally or vertically through a little track. If I insert the card, I push it in, let go of it, and the machine pulls the card all the way in. They aren't interchangeable.

— BarbaraPA

  • To me, if you tell me to swipe, I don't let go of it, and I run it either horizontally or vertically through a little track.
  • If I insert the card, I push it in, let go of it, and the machine pulls the card all the way in.
  • They aren't interchangeable.
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To me, if you tell me to swipe, I don't let go of it, and I run it either horizontally or vertically through a little track. If I insert the card, I push it in, let go of it, and the machine pulls the card all the way in.

They aren't interchangeable.
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Thanks Grammar Geek
I guess it.
Now I got the answer from the horse's mouth. I mean you are a native English speaker.
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