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LINGUISTICS & CULTURE
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| Autor: | Dale-CR |
| E-mail: | dale_thomas2004@yahoo.com.br |
| Data: | 26/MAR/2010 12:51 PM |
| Assunto: | on the phone |
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Sid, I feel "normal" knowing that the "Who is this?" gets on your nerves too. The practice here in Costa Rica has died out. In the 70s it drove me crazy. I told more than one caller, "If you don't know who I am, why did you call?" One guy was my wife's cousin. He called back and identified himself politely, but I learned later a brother-in-law was present, and the shocked cousin had asked those around him, "Who does this Gringo think he is?" LOL In Gramado I had a woman call me about 20 times asking for someone I had never heard of. I really got pissed off. If Carlos wasn't staying in the house an hour ago, he sure as hell did not move in after her last call. This morning I had to argue with a woman that Sonia did not live here and, no, she had not lived her a year ago, A wrong number is a wrong number. |
English Made in Brazil -- English, Portuguese, & contrastive linguistics
Quando usar the – Rafael English New X 24/MAR/2010, 10:34 PM Quando usar the – Tiago T. 25/MAR/2010, 12:13 AM Quando usar the – Dale-CR 
25/MAR/2010, 1:58 AM Quando usar the – Tiago T. 25/MAR/2010, 11:50 PM Quando usar "boas maneiras" ? – Teacher 25/MAR/2010, 1:15 AM Quando usar "boas maneiras" ? – Sidney 25/MAR/2010, 10:14 AM Quando usar "boas maneiras" ? – Dale-CR 25/MAR/2010, 3:25 PM Quando usar "boas maneiras" ? – Sidney 26/MAR/2010, 11:38 AM 
on the phone – Dale-CR 26/MAR/2010, 12:51 PM