Re: PLI: evidentials in reported speech

[And Rosta <a.rosta@UCLAN.AC.UK>]

> On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, And Rosta wrote:
> > If you wanted to report me saying "JC (phwoar!) is playing G"
> > then you might say "La and said lickerishly that JC is playing
> > G", for example. Same goes for Lojban.
>
> Hmmm, would it be equivalent to say (in Lojban)
>
>    La and said that (phwoar-dai) JC is playing G
>
> placing the empathy-ized attitudinal after "lenu" or
> between "le" and "nu"?  Or after "said", maybe?
>
> co'o do'u

I'd have thought you need a BAI phrase modifying "said".
(I can't remember what {dai} means.)

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