Erin McKeanI dreamt I was learning a language with two important words, wimak and mak. You used ‘mak’ in factual sentences where the basis for your assertion was anything you could touch (including taste) and ‘wimak’ if what you knew came from dreams, communication with ghosts, or intuition. Stuff you saw or heard was an unmarked case. People argued about whether tv or internet was wimak or not. #linguistdreams
John Wolf@emckean very interesting and intriguing. It is in your subconscious so what do you think it might mean?
Made in DNA
Tulle Tilsynet
jeremy // making Star Spark@emckean Neat! Sounds kind of like a subjunctive verb :)
H. Mantegazzi@emckean what would be the case for something that someone told you?
Schroedinger@emckean Fascinating - the important concept here was clearly being drawn out by your mind in terms that you as a linguist would understand.
It would suggest that the issue of whether the internet and TV is real is an issue for you. Or rather, what the reallity of these media is.
demofox@emckean that is so rad
Jeremy Kahn@emckean i learned-wimak this from ChatGPT
Tom Forsyth@emckean Sounds like a "kayfabe" discussion.
Naomi Saphra@emckean new evidential marker just dropped
Badri
Luna Corbden
Martha Crawford@corbden @emckean @shrinkthinks
Thanks! It is fabulous!
Anne C.A. Baanen@emckean television is wimak, the internet is unmarked.
Scott@Vierkantor @emckean but what about news on TV. What about *Fox* News …
@scottearle @emckean all tv is communication with ghosts. sorry, I don't make the rules.
ideaPDish@emckean
Were you trying to seperate apples from oranges and intangarines?
Were you trying to seperate apples from oranges and intangarines?
MOVED to @@emckean evidentiality is great
Michael Hancher@emckean Evidently related to mafic vs. felsic: https://www.dictionary.com/compare-words/mafic-vs-felsic
James 
@emckean Tread softly, for you tread on my wimak
tash@emckean amazing. :) mak/wimak, man/woman... i wonder if part of your dream was thinking about gender
Daryl Manning
Simon Cozens@emckean That sounds fairly similar to Pirahã.
@emckean Shaka when the walls fell. 😊
JP Roberts
Gruik@emckean sounds like Ewoks language
Dan Ancona@emckean maybe these words need to exist, as a way of grappling with conspiracy theories. I’m going with media as wimak, 100% though!
Michael Bell
Chuck DarwinFrom WALS Online - Chapter Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
Quotatives (also known as reportatives, hearsay, or second-hand evidentials) are used when the speaker has been told about the action or event by another person. Example (6) is from Lezgian (Nakh-Daghestanian; eastern Caucasus; Haspelmath 1993: 148):
(6) Lezgian
Qe sobranie že-da-lda.
today meeting be-fut-quot
‘They say that there will be a meeting today.’
As is the case with direct evidentials, more often than not both types of indirect evidence are grouped together into one general indirect evidential. This happens for instance in Dutch, where the verb moeten ‘must’ (also used as an epistemic or deontic modal, like its English cognate verb must ) can be used for unspecified indirect evidence:
(7) Dutch
Het moet een goede film zijn.
‘It seems to be a good movie.’ (I have no direct evidence)
Spielschrank Administrator@emckean Sounds a lot like Irish where Modh Coinníollach is a conditional tense for dreams and wishes.
Joope_BJW@emckean So let's say like factual things and fantastic ones. It turns out distinguishing between these two is a hard task.
marimo jones@emckean i . love this.
Nobody In Particular@emckean If a memory arises, how do you know whether it's mak or wimak? Assuming there is no way to immediately verify?
Lappenjammer@emckean Now I wonder if "wi" marks the opposite. Like "nonmak / antimak"? Or would it be more of a "better / bigger / holistic mak"?