[86780] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Sentences as objects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Tue Nov 3 21:05:28 2009
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:00:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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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
