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> Evidently, Ukraine will prevail. Also, if you need to write "evidently", then it's probably not that evident.
by m000 4y ago
> Evidently, Ukraine will prevail.
Also, if you need to write "evidently", then it's probably not that evident.
- andrejguran 4y agoEvidently has 2 meanings: "obviously" and "seemingly" here it was meant the second rather than the first you're referring to
- readthenotes1 4y ago2 meanings, yep: 1 in an evident manner : clearly, obviously 2 on the basis of available evidence (It can be used ironically for whatever that word means, but, ironically every word can be) (From Merriam-Webster)
- andrejguran 4y agoMerriam-Webster doesn't say anything about irony? Or you meant that the globsec report used the word ironically? It doesn't seems like it to me.
- orwin 4y agoI learned in my high school English lessons that evidently is kind of a false friend and that I should use 'obviously' rather than something that mean 'according to evidence'. It was Oxford's English though, so the meaning in real life might have changed now.
- m000 4y agoMy point is that there is a plethora of alternatives which would be more concise in conveying whatever the authors had in mind. "Evidently" is a weasel word in this case, and it's just leaving us readers to speculate and argue.
- andrejguran 4y agoalternatively, we can also read the report and stop the speculations and arguments
- m000 4y ago"Evidently" is used in the executive summary. If we need to read the report to disambiguate the executive summary, then that's just a shitty executive summary.