Indirect speech is when someone implies at a certain thing without explicitly saying it. Indirect speech mainly exists because we want to be polite about what we say. Direct language may be too blunt, giving the speaker a negative perception. In his excerpt, “Words Don’t Mean What They Mean,” Steven Pinker explains indirect
Indirect speech is when someone implies at a certain thing without explicitly saying it. Indirect speech mainly exists because we want to be polite about what we say. Direct language may be too blunt, giving the speaker a negative perception. In his excerpt, “Words Don’t Mean What They Mean,” Steven Pinker explains indirect