Re: USAGE: Speak-Say-Tell
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 20:13 |
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:30:26 -0700, Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:23:46 -0500, Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> wrote:
> > What about other natlangs?
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> In Spanish the ordinary words seem to be "hablar" (speak) and "decir"
> (say, tell).
German also has this two-way division into "sprechen" (speak) and
"sagen" (say, tell). There's also "erzählen", but that's more "tell"
in the sense of "recount", as in "tell a story", not so much "tell
someone that [X happened]".
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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