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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“WTF is severally?”
Guess that’s my new word for the day.
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I thought so at first as well, but it’s an actual word.
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.
It’s apparently more commonly used in legal documents - explains why we haven’t encountered it before.
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.
Opposite of jointly!
I would have thought that “separately” served that purpose just fine.
“Severally” connotes separated by intent. Separate and independent.
Because the best way to do that is by brandishing a lethal weapon.
Well, it probably is the best way to scare them
If only there was some socially acceptable way to scare six year olds at the end of October in North America.