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Chan-Seung Lee

Joined: 03 Dec 2005
Posts: 1032

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 7:44 pm Post subject: get

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Excuse me. I got the wrong person.

1.Does it make sense? What does it mean?
2.What word can 'got' in the quote be replaced with?

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m_prime

Joined: 28 Dec 2008
Posts: 52
Location: Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:50 pm Post subject:

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Excuse me. I got the wrong person.

This simply means that you have made a mistake and mistook a person for someone else.

I can't really think of another word other than 'got', maybe 'have' under some circumstances. A better way of saying the expression is,

"Excuse me, I thought (or mistook) you for someone else".

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