Reminds me of the discussion in Through The Language Glass of the Matsés people of the Amazon.
Their language has a built-in concept of evidentiality—every time they say anything about anything, their language requires them to express the amount of evidence for the statement—‘seen with my own eyes’ until ‘mere hearsay’—paper.
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Reminds me of the discussion in Through The Language Glass of the Matsés people of the Amazon.
Their language has a built-in concept of evidentiality—every time they say anything about anything, their language requires them to express the amount of evidence for the statement—‘seen with my own eyes’ until ‘mere hearsay’—paper.