@ColleenVpartedways and @M.A.R. I am being given a bounty for my answer, which was initially wrong. I don't feel right about this. Had someone not told me about the problem, I wouldn't have found it on my own. There is another answer which is correct. What should I do? Comment on my answer that OP give it to the other answerer?

@AIQ You should be gracious and accept the gift in the spirit given. Once a bounty is awarded, it can't be retracted. Being correct is not the only quality worthy of recognition. If your answer is correct now, and the bounty giver wants to reward you for correcting it, what's the problem with that?

This is a collaborative site. That someone pointed out the problem and you corrected it is exactly how this site is supposed to work.

Idiom for today: to play dumb. *My boss asked me what Idris thought of her idea. I knew they didn’t like it, and I didn’t want to get in the middle of it, so I played dumb.”

@AIQ You earned it, so don't worry too much. But I would clean the answer up a bit. You don't have to keep the parts that you know are incorrect.

@AIQ You should take it as a reward for admitting to your wrong and prioritizing giving learners correct information over pride.

Trust me, that's a very hard thing to do.

@M.A.R. ...ooor, you stick to your guns until everyone's given up, and you declare yourself the winner, making that bubble you've cocooned yourself in even thicker. You buy yourself some ice cream afterwards.

@userr2684291 Works for me

@M.A.R. Oh, 'cause of the ice cream...

Oh yeah haha yeah definitely just because of the ice cream

Haha.

not the other thing about cocoon . . . mumble mumble

@ColleenVpartedways @M.A.R. @EddieKal Thanks for your wisdom you three

I'm only 30% wise

The rest comes with a premium membership

lol

forcing our hands

why "hands" in particular?

@AIQ It refers to playing cards...

idioms.thefreedictionary.com/force+(one%27s)+hand

See 7a in merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hand

No like in "He's forcing our hands. We have to kill him. We simply can't let him run lose and run his mouth."

@M.A.R. That reminds me of a saying we have here: better to be a little dumb than a little smart.

Same idiom

Forcing someone’s hand means making them play their “cards” before they want to

Ahhhhh

Also, play one’s cards right

There are a lot of card game related idioms about making decisions or using the resources you have

got it ...

I see.

This sounds very strange to me

Ironically, however, investment has been lackluster in the period that India’s ease of doing business ranking has been improving.

I never really understood the use of "that" over "in which" after "in the period". And I also don't understand "has been improving" in that sentence.

India's Ease Of Doing Business ranking.

I made a comment to put in hyps. Like this: India's ease-of-doing-business ranking

The whole thing is modifying "ranking"

Investment has been lackluster during the period that the ranking has been improving.

I don't know what you don't understand.

Without the hyps, a reader (who has never heard of that ranking or this issue) would have to go back to the start and read again

Quotes would be better

yes, quotes would be better, anything really to set it apart.

even italics

Well, if they're not particularly hypsed about it in the first place, they probably won't be bothered to reread it.

But if they aren’t using the actual ranking’s name, they may have “painted themselves into a corner “

ELL was a much better place (or site) in the period that ColleenV was a mod. - I don't like this. Either "during" or "in which".

Even Sentence Caps would work - like @userr2684291 used

Maybe capitalize ranking as well, which I didn't.

Yes anything really.

Ironic how even India's Ease of Doing Business Ranking has been tyrannized by capitalism.

(Yes, I'm completely inconsistent with my capitalization.)

There is really nothing ironic about this - there is a temporal aspect to investment. OP is saying "in the period". When business regulations are eased (i.e., when red tapes are reduced) in a particular period, it is quite natural for investment to not grow. It will in the next period. Investments require savings, I = S, and that does not happen in the same period when regulations are relaxed.

@AIQ Well, maybe they're just "reporting it as they see it".

I don't know where you got that sentence from, and I'm not really interested in that stuff.

You should consider writing to the author of the article or whatever if you think they got it wrong, haha.

which sentence?

its the bounty question