"oratio obliqua" meaning in English

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          "text": "That'-clauses in indirect speech or oratio obliqua are of course cases where I report what someone else or myself elsewhen or elsewhere did say …. - \"How To Do Things With Words\" (1962) by JL Austin (OUP paperback edition, 70-71)"
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