Re: New language Noygwexaal & Qthyn|gai
From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
Date: | Sunday, March 27, 2005, 14:40 |
Hi!
Rodlox R <rodlox@...> writes:
> >From: Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
>...
> > Futher, anything you know from media is
> >'hearsay' in Qthyn|gai, never 'directly witnessed'. [2]
>
> so most people would use the "hearsay" form when talking about the
> existance of Antarctica, the nuclear bomb, and the War on Terrorism?
Those things are quite different in age, which is a factor influencing
the use of well-known information, but at least the existence of the
Antarctica is probably 'factual' evidentiality.
**Henrik