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I 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 'accordin
by orwin 4y ago
I 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.