> 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.
there are many languages that encode this info as mandatory grammatical affixes, it's called evidentiality.
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.