Query - it's/that's

[VShell]

I am confused by one other aspect of this thread.  I thought that "etot"
is usually translated as "this" and "tot" as "that".

-- Stepan


On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, william ryan wrote:

> Andrew Jameson wrote: We had a friend who used to phone us and announce herself as "that's Lena!" which we
> always found very disconcerting. Eventually she learnt that she should say "THIS is Lena".
>
> This edges into a small difference of idiom between (most) US English and (most) UK English: most
> Englishmen asking their caller's name will say 'Who is that?' while most Americans will say ''Who is
> this?'. No wonder Lena got it wrong!
>
> Will Ryan
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