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I believe you are correct. In theory he would be able to turn all his assets into money, but probably he would loose huges amount of it in the process due to th
by tucaz 10y ago
I believe you are correct. In theory he would be able to turn all his assets into money, but probably he would loose huges amount of it in the process due to the effect you mentioned.
I guess these rankings are just rankings. It's an abstract way to value what someone have (or could potentially have) with no relationship to absolute truth.
- badosu 10y agoI am sorry for sidetracking on this, but I need to understand why I am reading so much 'loose' here on HN. Is this error being used with intent? I have no interest in shaming grammar errors, it's just that I am seeing this too often here, in the same place where I read great arguments. English is not my native language, so maybe this is a colloquial use of the word?
- houst0n_ 10y agoMe too!! Nah its an error.. I don't know why it's made so often.. Maybe it was happening all the time and we only started noticing it? It irritates me far less than your/you're tho ;)
- OJFord 10y agoYour write, its an error made all to often. Many people are loser with spelling and grammer online than is you and me.
- houst0n_ 10y agoArgh, the pain! Have an upvote for making me cringe with just two sentences ;)
- OJFord 10y agoSerious comment to compensate for my silly comment: loose/lose actually bugs me more than your/you're errors - because it disrupts my reading of the sentence, especially if read aloud. In most cases the latter error can be glossed over like nothing happened.
- tucaz 10y agoAhhhhhhhh I'm sorry! In fact English is not my native language and I hate making these errors. Thanks to you that specific error is not gonna happen anymore as it was public pointed out. It will help me remember next time.
- badosu 10y agoNo problem at all dude, as I said I have no interest in shaming for grammar, my english is not perfect as well. I just wanted to check if there was some colloquial use of 'loose' that I was not aware of, as I am seeing this a lot and HN sometimes is a benchmark for me of good writing. I am glad you received that with sportsmanship, I am totally for having my errors checked out too, have a good one!