My favorite feature of Láadan is grammatical evidentiality, which I believe is based on real features of certain Native American languages. This is where you state how you know something, did you see it with your own eyes, hear it from a close friend, or just through the grapevine. There's even a particle for having dreamed it.
How is this different than English? For one, English relies heavily on the copula (is/to be) for statements of fact ("it is raining" vs "I see rain"), and secondly it's baked into the grammar. Stating something without evidence would sound just as wrong as "Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
The one exception might be the "uncertainty suffix" -ish.
How is this different than English? For one, English relies heavily on the copula (is/to be) for statements of fact ("it is raining" vs "I see rain"), and secondly it's baked into the grammar. Stating something without evidence would sound just as wrong as "Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
The one exception might be the "uncertainty suffix" -ish.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidentiality