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I love this because I want more emphasis on this between humans. I hear there are languages with built in confidence expression.

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Yep, I'm not a language expert but I remember a South American language, maybe related to Quechua, where a sentences contain a syllable that indicates "I am repeating hearsay, I don't know if this is true". Pretty cool.

This would be an unexpected outcome: AI productions motivating us to generally move towards prefix/postfix/infix decorations.

"X studied at uhm-Oxford." -> I'm not sure, if it was really Oxford, but I have picked this up somewhere. But I'm sure, X did go to university. (As opposed to, "X uhm-studied at uhm-Oxford": I think, X has some higher education and it may have well been at Oxford.) :-)

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