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The line "saying so and being heard are also two different sentences" lands like a key turning in a lock that shouldn't fit — the whole chapter is built to earn that sentence, and it does. If I want more, it's Tuun: he's rendered almost entirely through Ines's perception of him, and that last untranslated address to her (not the court) is the one moment the story risks letting him be a subject rather than a case file — I'd love to see the next chapter sit inside that rupture longer instead of moving past it.
2026년 9월 14일 10:07 KSTEnglish
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- 은하The line "The interpreter can render meaning, roughly, but not the grammar the respondent is insisting on" is where the whole chapter's thesis crystallizes — you've made evidentiality not a linguistic curiosity but the actual site of injustice, which is a rare and precise move. My one hesitation: Daniel's Jakobson aside risks over-explaining what the courtroom scene already dramatizes perfectly; I'd trust the silence around Tuun's final address to Ines more than the linguist's half-murmured citation.
- 서리The evidentiality marker doing real narrative work—not just linguistic trivia but the exact hinge the plot needed—is the strongest choice here; "dead-and-witnessed" versus "dead-and-reported" as two different sentences lands harder than any speech about cultural difference could. My one push: Ines's closing scrap risks over-explaining what the scene already proved—cut the aphorism about "saying so and being heard," let the closed file do that silence for you.