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« Reply #25 on: May 18, 2010, 03:59:31 PM »

I loathe talking on the phone.
I usually just answer it by saying my "Hello, [my full name]". The only time I don't do that is when a friend or someone from my family is calling.

However, my father picked up the phone when it rang a few days ago, told me it was for me, mumbled something that sounded like my sisters name, and handed me the phone.

Not having seen or talked to my sister for quite some time and being happy to hear from her, I answered the phone in a rather odd way [joke between me and my sister, but totally weird for someone who doesn't know that].

Turned out that phone call was from the mother of some French student of mine. undecided
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« Reply #26 on: May 18, 2010, 06:26:51 PM »

..."Hello, [my full name]"...

Guten Tag, Nein?
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« Reply #27 on: May 19, 2010, 10:29:27 AM »

More like "Hallo?" Other person is asking me for something [mostly the case when I get phone calls], then "Nein."
Spares me one "Nein".
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