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> 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.




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