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Originally Posted by ncannino
How do you identify yourself? I think for dealing with names, I might as well forget about eprime. "My mother named me Nicholas. May I speak with 'so and so'"?
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Names... I hate them... (on philosophical grounds, not due to difficulties in translating statements which use names).
Anyway; "Call me Nicholas"; "I'm known as Nicholas"; "Nicholas, here".
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Originally Posted by Inch
I want to say "Today is Tuesday" but I struggle to think of anything that sounds reasonable. |
Names... I still hate them...
"Tuesday, today."
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Originally Posted by Wildway
I say, "Today falls on a Tuesday", and I use that for any date, i.e. "When [copula] your Birthday?" ---> "My birthday falls on...".
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I hate birthdays as well...
"I do not have a(nother) birthday".