re: #27 austin_blue

When he posted his comment about the Irish hostage child, he was posting to the Irish people about an Irish child who was, indeed, lost, and was not positively known to be dead or living.

I think in the local vernacular, “lost” might carry a different nuance than the way Americans would use it.

Like, if an English person tells you something or someone is “brilliant”, that doesn’t carry quite the same meaning as when an American uses the word.