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Re:How to Beat Russia [pdf] by orwin on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @06:19AM (#35067679)
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.
Re:How to Beat Russia [pdf] by m000 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @06:23AM (#35067711)
My 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.
Re:How to Beat Russia [pdf] by andrejguran on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:15AM (#35068093)
alternatively, we can also read the report and stop the speculations and arguments
Re:How to Beat Russia [pdf] by m000 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:20AM (#35068137)
"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.