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Do we really report speech?


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Do we really report speech? #46 (permalink) Mon Sep 22, 2008 23:46 pm   Do we really report speech?
 

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Does #1 report #2, in your opinion, M? Or would you call it a summary?


Don't you think your question deserves a thread of its own?
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Do we really report speech? #47 (permalink) Thu Sep 25, 2008 23:38 pm   Do we really report speech?
 

It relates to your original comment, old chap:

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Minutes and summaries are not "conversations".


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Do we really report speech? #48 (permalink) Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:23 am   Do we really report speech?
 

Further comments and more reading.

"Reported thought is much more common than reported speech. But reported thought does not figure in pedagogic
grammars with anything like the same inevitability as does reported speech."

http://www.cels.bham.ac.uk/resources/LexSyllabus/lexsch2.pdf
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Do we really report speech? #49 (permalink) Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:24 am   Do we really report speech?
 

MrPedantic wrote:
It relates to your original comment, old chap:

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Minutes and summaries are not "conversations".


MrP


Wasn't that your comment, old sniper?
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Do we really report speech? #50 (permalink) Mon Sep 29, 2008 23:43 pm   Do we really report speech?
 

You quoted it and made it your own.

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Do we really report speech? #51 (permalink) Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:43 am   Do we really report speech?
 

MrPedantic wrote:
You quoted it and made it your own.

MrP


LOL! We can't blame you for trying, MrP. And you are trying in more ways than one. :lol:
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