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I recall stumbling upon a linguistic feature more common to native American languages called grammatical evidentals, where certain statements required some sort
by chillacy 4y ago
I recall stumbling upon a linguistic feature more common to native American languages called grammatical evidentals, where certain statements required some sort of marker which indicates how the information is known to the speaker: whether by direct experience (I saw the rain), or hearsay (I was told it's raining), etc.
I have considered on occasion that this would be useful, as a great deal of internet arguments stem from the fact that English allows for the construction of sentences which state subjective experience as absolute truth.
- vinay427 4y agoSomewhat related: I first stumbled upon this evidentiality while Wikipedia surfing about Bulgarian and a few other (South?) Slavic languages a while ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_grammar