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For questions that involve talking on the phone with someone.

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How can I ask (or determine) if someone on the phone is human without offending them?

The best strategy I can think of is to ask "can you repeat that?" If the repeated statement is exactly the same (volume, word choice, inflection, etc.) as the first statement, you may have caught the …
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