Re: how do you call someone who finished college the same year as you ?
- From: Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:29:45 -0400
mb wrote:
On Oct 26, 12:47 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
toto wrote:
thanksClassmate. (Yes, it's ambiguous.)
It's too ambiguous for a translation. Toto did not provide an original
text, or even indicate if it was for a translation or a paraphrase.
Until then, the answer is "someone who finished college / graduated in
the same year as X".
I see your point, but I think that it isn't necessarily too ambiguous. If I mention someone's name and someone else says, "Oh, yeah, he was a classmate of mine at college," my default interpretation is that they were in the same graduating class, not that they were three years apart but happened to be in the same Music Theory class one semester. On the other hand, if someone were to mention to me someone I'd known at college but who wasn't in my graduating class, I'd probably say something like, "Oh, yeah, I knew him in college," or, if we'd shared any classes, "Oh, yeah, we had classes together in college" or "We were in the same Music Theory class in college."
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