Learn Spanish (Latin America): Francamente, este es el error más notorio del proyecto. - Frankly, this is the most noticeable error of the project.

Here, francamente acts as a speaker attitude marker. Instead of describing how a specific action is performed, it modifies the entire sentence to express your stance or opinion. These markers are almost always placed at the very beginning of the sentence and are followed by a comma.

Is notorio a false friend for the English word 'notorious'?

Yes, it often is! In English, 'notorious' usually means famous for something bad. In Spanish, notorio simply means noticeable, obvious, or clear. Even though it describes an error in this sentence, the word notorio itself just means it is easy to see, without the 'evil reputation' meaning.

Why is the word order el error más notorio instead of translating 'the most noticeable' directly as el más notorio error?

To form a superlative in Spanish, you typically use the structure of a definite article, then the noun, then más or menos, and finally the adjective. Even in this 'the most...' structure, Spanish still follows its standard rule of putting the descriptive adjective after the noun.

Since este means 'this' and acts as a standalone pronoun here, shouldn't it have an accent mark?