Give me a missed call

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Hello,

Suppose that you and I want to do a secrete thing. We are friends.

I tell you:
1. "Be here when I missed call you." (I mean with my cell phone)
2. "Be here when I give you a missed call" (I mean with my cell phone)

Would you please help me on that? Would you please be nice enough to tell me how to say that?
Are my self made sentences correct to be used?

Source: self made general question
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Hello,

Suppose that you and I want to do a secrete thing. We are friends.

I tell you:
1. "Be here when I missed call you." (I mean with my cell phone)
2. "Be here when I give you a missed call" (I mean with my cell phone)

Would you please help me on that? Would you please be nice enough to tell me how to say that?
Are my self made sentences correct to be used?

Source: self made general question
Thank you



I think, then, you would say the following: "When I have called you, at the second or third ring, then you come here and wait. Don´t answer the phone, just let it ring (when you see it was me that called)."

Or "Be here when I call you, but don´t asnwer when you see it´s me, just be/come here."

Something like that. Let´s wait a mored advanced learner or native/teacher clear up our doubt.
The "two or three rings" would be a signal, this way one wouldn´t think the people put the call by sheer accident.
 

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Neither the original post nor the conclusion drawn in post #2 makes any sense to me.
 

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Neither the original post nor the conclusion drawn in post #2 makes any sense to me.
Ok thank you.
I want to give my thread an end by my this final question.
Would you please be kind enough to tell me which one is the most used one among you native English speakers?
I want to tell a sentence to mean cutting off your phone so that the other person cannot answer.

1. Mom, please missed call me when you arrive home.
2. Mom, please give me a buzz when you arrive home.
3. Mom, please buzz me when you arrive home.
4. Mom, please ding me when you arrive home.
5. Mom, please drop call me when you arrive home.
6. Mom, please give me two rings when you arrive home.

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I want to tell a sentence to mean cutting off your phone so that the other person cannot answer..
How can one 'cut off' one's phone so that somebody can't answer?
 

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How can one 'cut off' one's phone so that somebody can't answer?
I mean dialing the number, let it ring a couple of times, and then hang up.
 

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My stab at it:


1. Mom, when you have arrived home, call/ring me, at the second ring you hung up and I will call you back.



5jj, this could be in the event of her mother, for example, not having credits on her pre-paid cell phone. Or not having a cell phone, but some of her children having and she don´t want to bother him, etc.



I am not a teacher or English speaker, but I think it makes sense now. Let´s wait further comments.
Ah, one workaround to that would be sent her a text message, an SMS message. Yet, I am assuming she is tech-savvy etc.
And there are people that can´t read, then asking them to put a call would be the right/sensible thing to do.
 
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Ok thank you.
I want to give my thread an end by my this final question.
Would you please be kind enough to tell me which one is the most used one among you native English speakers?
I want to tell a sentence to mean cutting off your phone so that the other person cannot answer.

1. Mom, please missed call me when you arrive home.
2. Mom, please give me a buzz when you arrive home.
3. Mom, please buzz me when you arrive home.
4. Mom, please ding me when you arrive home.
5. Mom, please drop call me when you arrive home.
6. Mom, please give me two rings when you arrive home.

Thank you.

If you want your mother to let you know that she has arrived home okay and you do not want to answer the phone, number 6 is natural in AmE.
 

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''Mom, please give me two-ring call when you arrive home." to me would be more like it.


They use a lot here to report unwanted calls.

980-265-5550 / 9802655550
 
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''Mom, please give me two-ring call when you arrive home." to me would be more like it.


They use a lot here to report unwanted calls.

980-265-5550 / 9802655550

ppaulo_2 - it is important that you start your post with a statement that you are not a teacher when you try to answer other people's questions. Your suggested sentence is not natural and the punctuation is wrong.

I have no idea what the relevance was of the link you posted or what unwanted calls have to do with anything. This post is about calls people have requested.
 

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''Mom, please give me two-ring call when you arrive home." to me would be more like it.


They use a lot here to report unwanted calls.

980-265-5550 / 9802655550

Your suggestion is not natural in AmE.
 
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