Are ABC unaware of Guy Fawkes Night, or are they deliberately fake news?
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VERY FAKE NEWS
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both Characterize and Apparent serve the same function of avoiding a statement of fact
for instance we could re-write the sentence "characterized to be the winner of" or "who is the apparent winner of" and they both keep plausible deniability.
whoever wrote that is just fluffing up the word count to look smat.
Wicked smaht.
Probably maybe.
characterized to be apparently very intelligent.
They're using "apparent winner" because it's a common term that brings up the idea of a foregone conclusion, but then they need to slip in "characterized to be" for the plausible deniability.
If they just said "characterized to be the winner" that sounds like a challengeable claim. And if they just said "apparent winner", then people will be able to hold them to their bad judgement later.
It's stupid word play, but that's probably the motivation behind it.
It's BAD word play. They're trying to play two games at once, trying for legal and artful, winding up with something that has some of the properties of both, but lacks the punch of either.
Art is honest, which is why we're the age of bananas taped to walls. Everything is obfuscated in an attempt to navigate an impossible maze. Everything is viewed through so many different colored lenses that we block out all the light and ultimately see nothing at all. Dadaists would turn up their noses at our purposelessness. Nihilists would smirk at our fallen ambitions. The only way to rescue ourselves from the churning sea of meaninglessness is to return to the solid foundation our ancestors inhabited. Whenever that happens, throughout recorded history, we've called it a Renaissance. So why is it we stray from what we should cling to? Why do we abandon the wellspring to go wander the desert?
I wish I had an answer.