On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:21:56 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>On 2-8-2009 16:54, Stephen wrote:
>> On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:12:37 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> 
>>> My wife has the strange habit of verbatim quoting entire conversations 
>>> (i.e. without using 'and then he said' or similar to indicate she is 
>>> still quoting) between her and somebody else. After ten minutes I get 
>>> confused if 'you' refers to me or to that other person.
>> 
>> Oh! Is that a bad thing then?
>yes, because she gets angry, because I haven't been paying attention. 
>Actually I have been listening for 10 bloody minutes and how am I to 
>know when the quote stops if she does not tell me.
>> 

If you follow properly then you would know :)

>> You would not like to hear her talking to me :P
>
>why not?

I do the same or so my wife tells me.
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Regards
     Stephen

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