ja' Qov: >I'd be more likely to say: > >ghaHvaD qoH SoH jatlh Hoch > >Everyone said to him he was a fool. I don't think you can separate the {ghaHvaD} from the {jatlh} sentence like this. {qoH SoH} is the quoted sentence, and it should come either before or after the speaking sentence, not in the middle. -- ghunchu'wI'