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Post by mattie on Oct 23, 2016 10:49:24 GMT
Hypobole is the opposite of hyperbole. ie A drastic understatement. The more common meaning is "the act of anticipating objection for the purpose of refutation" It must be a bit like hyperthermia and hypothermia, one being too hot and the other being too cold, but I never can remember which way around!
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Post by dualinvestor on Oct 23, 2016 10:50:44 GMT
This loan will probably go live tmrw morning. Well right now "tmrw morning" has about 40 mins to run. Just as well the word "probably" is in there  Seriously though - this is starting to get irritating Unless in Spain where, by tradition, the morning runs until after lunch which is typically c.2pm. 
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Post by am on Oct 23, 2016 10:56:22 GMT
I realise that you're indulging in hypobole* Hyperbole. SS's total loan capital is £137m. 5% of that is nearly £7m. I think you might be optimistic there. The figure of 0.0002% may have been intended to be read in the tone of the rest of the post. £274 is clearly a tad low for the sum total of all of us who use this forum. If my arithmetic was correct you can get to around £4m just by taking the bottom end of each band. (27 people claimed to have 6 figure investments - that's at least £2.7m, and probably more like £5m). Add in £2m from the next two bands and that's your £7m. And that's not taking into account in increase in portfolio sizes over the last 6 months.
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Post by am on Oct 23, 2016 11:17:25 GMT
Hypobole is the opposite of hyperbole. ie A drastic understatement. The more common meaning is "the act of anticipating objection for the purpose of refutation" It must be a bit like hyperthermia and hypothermia, one being too hot and the other being too cold, but I never can remember which way around! hyper- is the Greek cognate of the Latin super- hypo- is the Greek cognate of the Latin sub- The presence of "per" in both superlative prefixes may be a sufficient aide-memoire. (There's a fair number of words which start with an "h" in Greek and an "s" in Latin.) hyper- and super- are both cognate to the English over, but English under is cognate to Latin infra-. Confusingly the English cognate of hypo- and sub- appears to be up, but the meaning changed over the millennia.
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Post by baglan on Oct 23, 2016 11:23:45 GMT
Hypobole is the opposite of hyperbole. ie A drastic understatement. The more common meaning is "the act of anticipating objection for the purpose of refutation" It must be a bit like hyperthermia and hypothermia, one being too hot and the other being too cold, but I never can remember which way around! Hyper- is too much while hypo- is not enough. Like a child who's a bit 'hyper' - over the top.
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Post by ianj on Oct 23, 2016 11:31:43 GMT
It must be a bit like hyperthermia and hypothermia, one being too hot and the other being too cold, but I never can remember which way around! hyper- is the Greek cognate of the Latin super- hypo- is the Greek cognate of the Latin sub- The presence of "per" in both superlative prefixes may be a sufficient aide-memoire. (There's a fair number of words which start with an "h" in Greek and an "s" in Latin.) hyper- and super- are both cognate to the English over, but English under is cognate to Latin infra-. Confusingly the English cognate of hypo- and sub- appears to be up, but the meaning changed over the millennia. I would be tempted to try and remember all that, just in case I ever fall into conversation with Stephen Fry, but at the minute I feel much as Baldrick must have done when asked to count 'silly bulls'!
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Post by cooling_dude on Oct 23, 2016 11:32:13 GMT
savingstream - an observation... I think the problem that has arisen here is because you post in the capacity of the company (i.e. savingstream ); as such, members here expect every post you make to be of an official nonpersonal nature. However, it does seem that a selection of posts are of a professional nature (i.e announcements and responses to enquiries) but other comments are of a personal nature. There is no doubt in my mind that the account is run by several different parties, who also use the account to post comments of a personal nature; that can be confusing when judging the nature of the comments that you post. I note that other platform reps have individual accounts, and thus when they post we know their comments are of a personal nature; maybe this is something you should consider? If the sequence of posts consisted of '@ savingstream' posting a notice (along the line of "unfortunately we are delaying the go-live date until tomorrow") followed by a post be @ SSRep-johndoe joking about delaying it due to the phases of the moon, then I don't think there would have been any compaints. After all, we do have.... most of us do have a sense of humour . . . P.S. Updates, please...
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Post by geraldine1210 on Oct 23, 2016 11:32:59 GMT
Our comments seem to have caused somewhat of an uproar. We were trying to interact with you on a human level as some have pointed out, however the majority seem to have taken them in a way which we did not intend. So we apologise for this and will amend the way we interact with you in future. You are correct, we are a £200m financial institution and need to be more professional. I think you have missed the point. A friendly quip is fine. If you had said 'sorry gang for the delay', that would have been fine. It was the 'there has been no delay' that really wound people up.
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Post by geraldine1210 on Oct 23, 2016 11:47:28 GMT
I can see this not going live before Monday.
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Post by oldgrumpy on Oct 23, 2016 11:53:57 GMT
savingstream Just tell us why having told us the loan would go live on Saturday, then you said there was no delay when it didn't. Why didn't you say there has been a delay because ...? Keep it simple. Then we'll all shut up!
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Post by geraldine1210 on Oct 23, 2016 11:57:36 GMT
savingstream Just tell us why having told us the loan would go live on Saturday, then you said there was no delay when it didn't. Why didn't you say there has been a delay because ...? Keep it simple. Then we'll all shut up! Exactly.
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Post by bababill on Oct 23, 2016 12:09:36 GMT
I made a deposit on Friday and it has still not been credited to my account.
I am disgusted that my five figure investment (£100.00) has not been credited.... makes me want to cry.
However on a more serious note around 5pm on Friday I opened up a new account under my business name. For the account to become active I had to make a deposit.
So again I made another five figure investment (£100.00)/ or maybe it was six figures--- anyhow the point is on Saturday it was credited to my new business account. Not bad going....
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Post by am on Oct 23, 2016 12:36:01 GMT
I made a deposit on Friday and it has still not been credited to my account. I am disgusted that my five figure investment (£100.00) has not been credited.... makes me want to cry. However on a more serious note around 5pm on Friday I opened up a new account under my business name. For the account to become active I had to make a deposit. So again I made another five figure investment (£100.00)/ or maybe it was six figures--- anyhow the point is on Saturday it was credited to my new business account. Not bad going.... "Funds deposited before 5pm will be credited to your account the following morning, with the exception of weekends when deposits will be treated as a Monday deposit and will be credited on Tuesday morning." (Though this doesn't fit well with the encouragement to deposit funds in advance of Monday's drawdown; I thought that they might have done some additional processing runs this weekend. However my Saturday morning deposit isn't showing yet, and if it doesn't arrive until Tuesday that might have exceededthe INPL grace period from a Saturday golive. If SS are going to give short notice of loans going live perhaps they ought to look into speeding up the deposit process, especially if they want to be sure of funds availability.)
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Post by MarkT on Oct 23, 2016 12:39:15 GMT
Our comments seem to have caused somewhat of an uproar. We were trying to interact with you on a human level as some have pointed out, however the majority seem to have taken them in a way which we did not intend. So we apologise for this and will amend the way we interact with you in future. You are correct, we are a £200m financial institution and need to be more professional. This is absolutely the right thing to do. I personally wasn't bothered by the initial posting but, as with many things in business, perception is at least as important as the fact. Perceptions are always true to the holder. This posting indicates that SS is a learning organisation and that can only be good for future prospects.
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Post by dermot on Oct 23, 2016 12:41:14 GMT
Our comments seem to have caused somewhat of an uproar. We were trying to interact with you on a human level as some have pointed out, however the majority seem to have taken them in a way which we did not intend. So we apologise for this and will amend the way we interact with you in future. You are correct, we are a £200m financial institution and need to be more professional. I wasn't offended - but next time, blame any delay on the lawyers? After all, we all hate them, from Shakespeare onward down through the ages .... Any news on go live?
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