/lit/ - Literature

>>17862391
>ithkuil
are you into ithkuil anon? i took a break from learning 2011 because of the new language
im surprised no one mentioned the name of the grammatical category at the start of the thread. ig there's not many linguistics autists here...
desu i dont think it would change much though because in english you can always use phrases to mark evidentials, like "i heard from someone that-". it's just more concise
>>17862346
>Precision comes from optionality. Grammaticalised things tend to become more abstract and intangible because of being obligatory. Not solid, precise information
interesting, though i know with ithkuil at least a lot of the categories if unmarked are just assumed to be in their default sense. for instance, the default evidential is the confirmative, so i will always assume that is someone's meaning and i can really confirm what they are saying through direct observation unless they say otherwise