>>>>>>>>>>Which brings the question of why the need to repeat the value, a zero-one tie is kind of impossible, right?
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>>>>>>>>>Good question. This is why in tennis the score is "15 All". Maybe they should adapt it to other sports :)
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>>>>>>>>Although, watching the Wimbledon tournament, I've heard them say "15 each". And considering the odd scoring used in Tennis, I doubt anybody wants to use tennis as a role model. Why doesn't tennis just count 0, 1, 2, 3 like normal humans instead of love, 15, 30, 40? There's probably a historical story to it, but there is also such a thing as evolution.
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>>>>>>>Speaking of eaches... I'm still amused by "each" as a unit of measure. When the price is "$5/ea", how do I say "give me two eaches of..."? There's such a word in German, "St[u umlaut]ck", we say "komad" (a piece), but in English I have no clue, have to manage with "two of those". I don't know what to say when the unit of measure is a unit of one.
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>>>>>>You simply say, "Give me two." Or, better yet, "I'd like two please." Politeness counts.
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>>>>>I thought it was always "Can I get ... ?" (barf). This is creeping in over here - I hear it at the sandwich shop amongst he younger cutomers.
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>>>>Yeah. I'm still waiting for a waiter or waitress to say, "No."
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>>>Or "I don't know what your abilities at obtaining are".
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>>I was in a restaurant with a friend and the waiter asked if I wanted more coffee. I said, "I'm fine". He said, "I don't care how you are. You want more coffee?" and he was grinning when he said it. I gave him a very good tip.
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>Family members have developed a nice habit if you start saying something with "Can I just say" of replying "No!" at that point.

Yes. Whenever my mother says, "Can I ask you something?", I always say, "No." But she refuses to learn.

Still, my all time favourite is, "I can't wait!", to which I always say, "What are the other choices?"