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.
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.