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Antonia  #90649  Sat, 16 Apr 05 06:11 PM
Can you help me please,
I'm not sure whether in the context, this means ''you would like to pay a visit'' or ''you would call it that way'':

X: When's the funeral?
y: She's being cremated. There's a wake, I guess you'd call it, tonight. Here's the address.
  
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pieanne  #90652  Sat, 16 Apr 05 06:16 PM
It's "you'd call it that way"
As she's being cremated, there's no real funeral, but there's a ceremony, a wake, but y is not too sure about the way to call it.
  
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I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...
Antonia  #90654  Sat, 16 Apr 05 06:18 PM
Thanks pieanne, just checking. Sometimes I'm completely blocked, if you know what I mean
  
pieanne  #90658  Sat, 16 Apr 05 06:25 PM
Eyes screwed and mind blank? Yes, I do!
But I've a great experience on PM's, morgues, wakes and so on... I(m reading Minette Walters presently, don't like it much... I prefer McDermid.
  
Antonia  #90662  Sat, 16 Apr 05 06:29 PM
Thanks God for your taste, it saved me a lot of trouble. If you are in the mood, and if you have some spare time, take a look at the Medical English threads, post:fair game (I accidentally put it there).
  
MrPedantic  #90733  Sat, 16 Apr 05 11:51 PM
There's a wake, I guess you'd call it, tonight.

I'd slightly differ about this one.

When you say 'an X, I guess you'd call it', it's as if you'd gone back and put inverted commas round the X.

You have Something in your mind. 'It's an X', you say. Then you think to yourself, hmm, is it really an X? Well, I suppose so, yes; at least, I can't think of any other word for it. At which point you add, 'at least, I guess you'd call it an X...'

For instance, a wake should consist of a vigil, plenty of liquor, and some rowdy singing. But perhaps here, it's a pale imitation of a wake: a few old ladies with a flask of tea. A 'wake', in fact.

(If anyone's still a-wake.)

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CalifJim  #90795  Sun, 17 Apr 05 06:48 AM
But in any case, we never say "call it that way", do we? I don't, except in:

-- Oink, oink, oink! Here, piggy, piggy, piggy! (To get a sow to come and eat.)
-- Are you for real? You don't call it that way You shout, "SoooooooooEEeeeeee!"

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abbie1948  #90898  Sun, 17 Apr 05 06:57 PM
Or: "that's absoutely typical of you"

You WOULD call it thay way - I'd expect nothing else from you, even when everyone else shouts SoooooooooEEeeeeee!"
  
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Hope that helps. Abbie
Antonia  #91189  Mon, 18 Apr 05 03:51 PM
Thanks Mr P., I agree
  
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