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Could you speak up a little, please? Could you spell that, please? Sorry, my English is not good. Could you speak a little slower?
Could I ask you to spell your surname for me, please? The line is very bad this end. Could I ask you to repeat your name, please? Could you say your name again, please?
Let me repeat that just to make sure. Thanks for calling. Bye for now. I need to hang up now. Thank you for calling, Mr Steven. Good bye. Thank you for calling Friend Tecnology Firm. One of the oldest and widely used mechanical media of oral communication is telephone. By telephone persons residing far away from each other can easily exchange necessary information. By it, urgent message can be transmitted and prompt feedback can be ensured.
Definition of telephone conversation, Meaning of telephone conversation. We can define telephonic conversation as an exchange of information between two persons over telephone. This is not a face-to-face conversation rather a person-to-person conversation where nobody sees other but hears each other and interacts instantly. Telephonic conversation is most effective when distance is longer and time is a great factor. Now-a-days cell phones are becoming more popular along with land phone as mechanical media of oral communication.
Thanks for your answers everyone! I know some posters thought B is the caller, A is the receiver. I'd had the opposite in mind.
I think good options would be: who is that speaking? My reactions: thingystuff said:. W ho is that speaking? More polite: "Who's speaking please? A "please" would make it even more polite. Thanks Elroy, Is who is that speaking? I would consider it quite informal but it doesn't sound rude to me. In any case, I'm Spanish and manners do differ sometimes I am always very polite though! IMO, it's bad English as well as a little rude if you are talking to someone directly, such as on the phone, through a closed door, etc.
In the UK, the caller was perceived as at a distance away, hence when asking the caller to identify themself, the usual question was "Who is that? By the same token, if you phoned someone and invited them to guess who you were, you might ask, "Who is this? The inference is: "This is me, is that you? Another highly likely possibility in place of the choices given, and that no one has mentioned, is " Who's calling?
Although I'm not per cent sure whether the rest are correct. I guess in some places some expressions are used more commonly than in others. There are huge differences between British English and American English. Molot Senior Member Wisconsin now, Chicago before.
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