Dr_Satan@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 9 months agoWhen somebody tells you something, sometimes it's something they personally experienced and sometimes it's something they heard from somebody else. How do you tell the difference?message-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down14
arrow-up16arrow-down1message-squareWhen somebody tells you something, sometimes it's something they personally experienced and sometimes it's something they heard from somebody else. How do you tell the difference?Dr_Satan@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareHegar@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoSome languages make a grammatical distinction between them, like there’s a different affix or a different form of the verb or noun if it came from personal experience, a trusted source, a distant source, inference etc.
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoAhhh I came here for this because I heard about it but don’t remember which language!
Some languages make a grammatical distinction between them, like there’s a different affix or a different form of the verb or noun if it came from personal experience, a trusted source, a distant source, inference etc.
Ahhh I came here for this because I heard about it but don’t remember which language!