Comment by fancybouncy
3 years ago
> we should be clear about our level of experience/understanding
there are many languages that encode this info as mandatory grammatical affixes, it's called evidentiality.
3 years ago
> we should be clear about our level of experience/understanding
there are many languages that encode this info as mandatory grammatical affixes, it's called evidentiality.
I hadn’t heard of that. Neat!
I find it interesting that the first example they use in the Wikipedia article is Turkish. I’ve only met a couple Turks, but they were all quite good engineers. I wonder to what extent embedding this kind of information in the language helps organize your thoughts.