On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:03:00 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>
>Or perhaps you are not as bad as my wife, she is able to really quote 
>verbatim (or at least that is what she claims). Quoting both herself and 
>the other person literally without any indication that it is a quote and 
>by whom. Which means that if she uses 'you' she can mean either that 
>other person or herself if she is quoting that other or me if she has 
>ended the quote. I find it rather confusing at times.

Ah! A mere male. :) Thus is a common condition for us ;)

>Also sometimes confusing, but what happens to more people, is mentioning 
>only a first name and leaving to the other person which one of the Johns 
>you both know is meant.

But you know that Jan Wit would never do that and Jan Zwart is doing it all the
time so it must have been Jan who said it. Yes or no? :-)
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Regards
     Stephen

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