I'm sorry, SuStel, I've to ask again on this matter, and don't misunderstand me; I'm not trying to find a way to write nested quotations. In fact, even if I could use them in klingon I wouldn't, since the whole "he said that she said that they said.." gives me a feeling of old grannies gossiping in the village. But it seems that I've stumbled here on something I ignored, so I'd like to clarify this further. SuStel:
The real question is whether you can say 'e' yIja' tell that. It seems that the answer is no. Whatever you want to report about is either a noun or a quotation. jIH: I'm afraid I can't understand this; doesn't the {'e'} of a sao serve as a noun? SuStel: 'e' is a pronoun. It stands in for a sentence, not a noun. When I said "either a noun or a quotation," I meant exactly that.
What I was about to ask next, was this: Ok, but we *can* write {ghaH vIja'pu'} for "I've told him". Isn't {ghaH} a pronoun too? So why can't we say too {'e' yIja'}? The only explanation which came to mind, was that pronouns such as {jIH}, {SoH}, {ghaH}, etc can function as nouns too, something which the {'e'} of a sao can't do. The {jIH}, {SoH}, {ghaH}, etc are pronouns and can be nouns too, but the {'e'} can only be a pronoun. Am I right? ~ Dana'an