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- bklyndroobeki0
Ugh, mistake on my cover letter:
"I have a vested interest in the...", instead of "I have an invested interest in the..."
- you could say you bought stockGnash
- haha! Luckily it isn't a copywriting gig. Interviewing w/ them next week. I kind of want to bring it up but maybe I should let it gobklyndroobeki
- they won't noticescarabin
- "a personal stake or involvement in an undertaking or state of affairs," why is this not true?sarahfailin
- ^ i think he used "invested" instead of "vested."Gnash
- Ah @ sarahfailin, thought it was ONLY pertaining to Law or Real Estate (house, car, etc.) Yeah I think you're right... I'm OK!bklyndroobeki
- lol. i thought you meant you used 'invested' by accident. sarah is correct, vested is good. you would have been wrong to use 'invested'Gnash
- Gnash, "Invested in the success of ____________" would've been wrong?bklyndroobeki
- "Invested interest in the success of ___________"bklyndroobeki
- you can't 'invest' interest as in you're original sentence. In that context, vested was correctGnash
- it's called a malapropism. when you use an incorrect word in the place of a word that sounds similar to the correct one.Gnash
- it's not that you can't make an argument that the sentence makes some sort of sense anyway. but it's not the intended sentenceGnash