What’s the alternative? Force journalists to reveal their sources? I’m sure that won’t backfire…
Or just say more about it
I hear that. I’ve had many discussions where people link their claims and their link does not back them up or outright contradicts them. But they keep on making their claim.
fake: no source
gay: anon reads
Found the Vorin.
Turkish has a different verb tense for something you personally witnessed vs heard second hand or inferred, and I really appreciate that
Hey for no reason in particular, what is that word?
Evidential past tense. Depends the verb, but it’s usually verb-miş, which kinda sounds like ‘misha’ or ‘mush’ to my US ears. It’s used when you haven’t personally witnessed something. Like if you go outside and see puddles of water and a cloud that just passed and a rainbow, it clearly just rained but you didn’t TECHNICALLY see it rain, so you say yağmur yağmış instead of yağmur yağdı if you had actually seen it.
So when you find a group of people gossiping, you just hear ‘misha’ ‘misha’ ‘misha’ ‘misha’ because they’re all talking about inferred info, and I’ve heard it called the gossip tense.
And it’s appropriate to note that I know all this second hand. I don’t know any Turkish (besides Dur = stopsign from geoguessr), this is from my language nerd friend who speaks a decent amount, so I probably need to throw a -miş in here somewhere.
They said it’s a tense, not a specific word
Ok but like what if they just relaxed and said it
Then we gotta invent some words!
What the fuck, the English stole everything that wasn’t bolted down and they didn’t take THAT with them? PRIORITIES, guys. Skip the French crap and integrate THIS
We can still do it. Time to ask what the turkish word is so we can integrate them into our Frankenstein language
I looked it up earlier and don’t remember the exact characters so forgive the romanization but it’s basically changing “di” to “mis” at the end of verbs.
“It rained” vs “apparently it rained” when you did not actually see it raining but the sidewalk is wet.
“Ali is sick” vs “Ali is supposedly sick” when you did not confirm it (or perhaps doubt Ali’s claim??)
Thanks for making it clearer. Just to add actual turkish so people can see properly :
Yağmur yağdı > It rained
Yağmur yağmış > It’s been said that it rainedAli hasta > Ali is sick
Ali hastamış > It’s been said that Ali is sickYağmur > rain
yağ > to spread/to rain
dı > past indicator
mış > second person reporting, pasthasta > sick
Worse part is when a headline of an article like that is posted on social media and everyone just takes it at face value, especially if they agree with it.
SCIENTIST FOUND EVIDENCE THAT THE MULTIVERSE IS REAL
New experimental observations regarding macroscopic quantum mechanical systems are found to be consistent with the many-worlds interpretation.
Reminds me of every instance of a “Gen Z” is dumb article out there
“It was revealed to me in a dream.”
My ass is a source.
A source of shit but a source none the less
When the word “tantalizing” is used, you know you’re in for some absolute hogwash.
