Re: USAGE: Speak-Say-Tell

Geoff Horswood wrote:
>
>I was thinking about the English words "speak", "say", "tell" (and
>"talk"), and trying to quantify the exact difference between them.
>Specifically, I was wondering whether all the words were strictly
>necessary in a language, or whether you could postulate a language
>with only one word meaning speak, say, tell or talk, depending on
>context.  How realistic is > this?

I know of three in Swahili:
ambia = say to, tell.
ongea = talk
sema = say, speak

Charlie

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