The example:
それについては、新事実も続々と明らかになってきましたね。(New revelations about that have been continuously revealed.)
Is not exactly correct; I believe “continually” should be used instead of “continuously”.
just speaking as a speaker of english, “continually” and “continuously” seem interchangeable to me here; would you mind elaborating why you’d choose one over the other?
I always thought they meant the same, but I guess they do have slightly different meanings. Continually = frequent vs continuously = nonstop. But why couldn’t revelations be revealed nonstop, maybe like during an investigation?
@Fishing Revelations aren’t the sort of thing that occurs continuously due to the nature of the event as an occurrence as opposed to an existence. Water runs from a faucet continuously (constant state of existence) and drips from a faucet continually (discrete occurrences). Revelations couldn’t be revealed continuously unless witnesses were constantly barging in and talking over each other, dropping evidence onto the table, day after day, without sleep, non-stop, until the conclusion of the investigation.
@Alonzo-xyz I agree that the two are functionally interchangeable because they are constantly misused, including by me (until now hopefully), but the great thing about studying Japanese is that one also learns more about English.