Timeline for Usage of imagined content in direct speech
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| Jul 29, 2015 at 13:17 | history | bounty ended | Eph | ||
| Jul 24, 2015 at 15:25 | comment | added | deadrat | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 12:06 | comment | added | Eph | I believe so? However, I'm trying to find a good thorough definition of direct discourse to see if hypothetical quotes are still direct discourse. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 2:59 | comment | added | deadrat | @Rick Then I'm not being 100% clear. Let's start here: do you follow my distinction between attribution and direct discourse? | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 0:27 | comment | added | Eph | Yeah, I'm not following 100%. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 23:56 | comment | added | deadrat | Sort of. I quoted (i.e., used quotation marks for) Marvel to give him credit for his words, even though he wasn't actually speaking. I quoted myself to show direct discourse -- I don' t need to worry about giving credit to others for my own words -- and to dispute Marvel's sentiments in case you think writing a poem is close enough to speaking. If that's so, I don't his words are true, but I quote them anyway. Should I make this clearer in my answer? | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 23:50 | comment | added | Eph | Okay so you added the usage of hypothetical quotes to the example. Thanks for the clarification. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 23:38 | comment | added | deadrat | The example actually reads, "Andrew Marvel's praise of John Milton, "Thou has not missed one thought that could be fit,/And all that was improper dost omit" ("On Paradise Lost), might well serve as our motto. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 23:36 | comment | added | Eph | Is your adaptation from The Chicago Manual of Style (the block quote) a direct quote? | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 23:16 | history | answered | deadrat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |