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Conlangery #32: Evidentials

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Defining a Defendant in a Confault

Some languages and the Wikipedia article is a list of all these different systems, which is the taxonomy that a confault came up with. Some of them have multiple inferential or multiple reportative hearsay evidential. And I don't know what the distinction is meaning. So they're just given numbers in French, one and in French, two do not tell me what they mean. Maybe it's like distance. Like I got it from him rather than he said that she said that she'm a part. Can we go back? Sure. Duh is kind of like a general knowledge marker in English because you're always the only going to say everyone was president. Oh, yeah.

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