• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He also shared that just the night before the incident, two people had knocked on their door severally and ran away before he opened the door.

    “WTF is severally?”

    Severally: separately or individually; each in turn.

    Guess that’s my new word for the day.

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          Right? This is the first time I’ve heard this word used like this in my life, and I’m fairly well read and educated. Like I don’t doubt it is grammatically correct, but in my opinion, a writer’s job is to communicate effectively - especially in a news article. Because using the word like this caused general confusion among the readers, it is a failed communication.

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            1 year ago

            It’s apparently more commonly used in legal documents - explains why we haven’t encountered it before.

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              Yeah you’ll often see it when co-signing a loan for example, where both parties are “both jointly and severally responsible” for the loan.