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Re: Sentences as objects

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected])

• From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Sentences as objects
• Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:00:03 -0800 (PST)
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jIghItlh:
 
> The point of Okrand's explanation was that there are no
> indirect quotations in Klingon, and that direct quotes are
> actually independent sentences referred to by another
> independent sentence.

Actually, to correct myself, I think Okrand's point was that reported speech can never be an object of a verb of saying, and probably not of any verb. The English distinction between indirect and direct reported speech is therefore not relevant to Klingon.

-- ter'eS
 

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