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shot72
26 jun 2020

  • Japonés
  • Inglés (US)
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¿Cuál es la diferencia entre upside potential y potential upside ?Puedes dar oraciones como ejemplo.

"I've noticed that we have a lot of potential upside as part of this project."
I read the sentence above. What's the difference between the two, "upside potential" and "potential upside".?
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fluffy_lamb_dog
26 jun 2020

  • Inglés (US)

They technically mean the same thing.

It's a little more common to say something like "This situation has a potential upside". You might say "This situation has upside-potential" in either a casual setting, or if you were in an informal business meeting.

To my ear, saying something has 'upside-potential' sounds like something a trendy manager would say to his team.

You can make 'potential upside' plural, by saying 'potential upsides', but you couldn't make 'upside-potential' plural.

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shot72
26 jun 2020

  • Japonés
"To my ear, saying something has 'upside-potential' sounds like something a trendy manager would say to his team." I know what you mean, 'cause this phrase was spoken by a go-getting project manager. Thank you!
fluffy_lamb_dog
26 jun 2020

  • Inglés (US)

@shot72 Hah! Wonderful! It's also the type of phrase a real estate agent would use.

"This house has serious resale-potential!"

It felt funny to describe the phrase as both casual AND business-y, but that seems like the trend of modern business folks. They want to be friendly, down-to-earth. Someone you could talk to about beer or tax codes. Or both!

...and yet, a teacher would probably dock points from your essay if you tried to talk about the 'upside-potential' of turning in cookies with your homework.

CC3
26 jun 2020

  • Inglés (US)
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zero difference

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