• @samus12345
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      2111 months 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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          511 months ago

          I thought so at first as well, but it’s an actual word.

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            11 months ago

            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.

            • @samus12345
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              511 months 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.

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          I would have thought that “separately” served that purpose just fine.

          • @AnalogyAddict
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            “Severally” connotes separated by intent. Separate and independent.

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      Wen reportedly told cops that he “just wanted to scare them.”

      Because the best way to do that is by brandishing a lethal weapon.

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        111 months ago

        If only there was some socially acceptable way to scare six year olds at the end of October in North America.

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      a resident of the infamous Long Island,

      IANAA, what is long island infamous for?