Who are you talking about?

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I have met a couple people here who have an interesting habit when talking about other people. If someone came to visit the day before, they become “that man” or “that woman”. For someone to say “we need to go see that man who was here yesterday” or “Remember that man, who lives on that side” is normal… Regardless of how many people came by the day before. I haven’t yet figured out if I am just slow, and that’s why I often have no idea who they are talking about, or if people here just play along normally and pretend to know until they figure it out.

This is seriously a conversation I had the other day
“Remember that man.”
“Which man?”
“Ah, you know, the man who visited yesterday.”
“The one from the morning or one of the ones in the afternoon?”
“The one from the afternoon.”
“Which one from the afternoon?”
“The second one.”
“Yeah, I remember him.”

This is another one:

“You remember the question that lady asked?”
“No.”
“That meeting we had last week.”
“The world vision one?”
“Yes, and the lady asked that question.”
“She asked many questions.”
“The question about criteria.”
“Okay.”

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