Talk:Indirect speech

direct speech
answer the following question they say to kamala is your father sleeping in the room now — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.242.213.194 (talk) 10:21, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

The plumber asked us if the tap was still leaking Patitaaar (talk) 23:11, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

"Indirect quote"
Google search clearly indicates usage warranting inclusion even if I can't find a RS. regards, Cinderella157 (talk) 06:25, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Redirect created Cinderella157 (talk) 06:33, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Two little notes
I think this article would benefit from more information about non-Indo-European languages, particularly in the lead. I also think the article should treat "indirect discourse" as the main term rather than "indirect speech". It's the more common term these days and more accurate given that the phenomenon exists in sign languages. Botterweg14 (talk) 14:56, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Globalize flag removed
I just removed a drive-by "globalize" flag.

In many languages, indirect discourse is expressed using a content clause or infinitival. When an instance of indirect discourse reports an earlier question, the embedded clause takes the form of an indirect question. In indirect speech, grammatical categories in the embedded clause often differ from those in the utterance it reports. For instance, the example above uses the third person pronoun "she" even though Jill's original utterance used the first person pronoun "I". In some languages, including English, the tense of verbs can also be changed changed following the sequence of tense. Some languages also have a change of mood. For instance Latin indirect speech uses the infinitive for statements and the subjunctive for questions. 

My own opinion is that the global reader is already well served by the supplied links for grammatical tense and grammatical mood. If these are like the majority of linguistics articles, both of these articles are likely more global than most people can cope with. I know enough Mandarin to know that in the isolating language group, you can't even introduce this topic as it's treated here.

During the ongoing Twitter apocalypse, it's awfully easy to slap on a "globalize" flag because kneejerk "Latin", but I think this is an example where another 10 seconds worth of thought might have resulted in the editor choosing to forego this. Of course, others might think I'm wrong; if so, go ahead and revert my reversion. &mdash; MaxEnt 01:52, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Indirect speech
The man said water boils at 100c 103.94.255.142 (talk) 23:52, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Indirect speech
Indirect speech 117.200.233.94 (talk) 06:54, 16 November 2022 (UTC)