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If I remember correctly, Japanese allows "I want X" but not "You/He wants X," only "It seems that you/he wants X," the reasoning being that the speaker can't read other people's heads and can't know what they want, only the external signs that suggest so. Is that how you language handles "You are angry"?
No, I have no problem with people saying that they know that someone else is angry.
I however would want to have a distinction between whether the claim is that the person has the feeling, the emotion or the moot of anger.
Serious psychology distinguishes those from each other and as a result I would want the language to reflect that distinction and not simply use "you are".
I think the information transmitted at minimum would be: "I have the knowledge that you have the feeling of anger." Currently that should take four sylables with 10 to 12 letters.
But it should be also possible with using an additional letter to instead say: "My intuition tells me that you have the feeling of anger."
My goal isn't that language forces people to use a phrase like "I imagine" but that it makes it easier. I think that makes it easier to communicate with Radical Honesty without people feeling insulted.