When people say something is obvious they usually merely mean that it is apparent. Very subtle linguistic technique to smuggle in a truth-claim.
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Replying to @michaelmalice
You mean synonyms in the English language actually exist!? shocked.
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Replying to @michaelmalice @H329Rk
Oxford & Merriam-Webster disagreepic.twitter.com/dpOUZmcsbM
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Replying to @DungHappened @H329Rk
implications are often lost with dictionaries. they are not used in the same sense. no one uses the term "obvious" to mean "tangible" (or vice versa), which they have listed there
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Replying to @H329Rk @DungHappened
is your contention that saying "unemployment has been the most tangible cost of the recession" would have an identical meaning?
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Replying to @michaelmalice @DungHappened
Synonyms do not have to be identical in meaning, so as long as they're close in meaning. There can be subtle differences.
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which was precisely my original point, thank you.
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Replying to @michaelmalice @DungHappened
I responded to your assertion that 'obvious' and 'apparent' are not synonyms. They clearly are synonyms.
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They’re apparently synonymous but not obviously so
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