A bit ago when I was mentioned my one event that my one (West African) mailman said that he was going to come to with his wife but didn't -- I just raised it incidentally, not in that regard -- he was like, "[Informal version of my first name], you have to remember me!", and then he said different variations of "remember me," about how he can never remember this or never remember that, unless people remember him multiple, multiple times, including right up to the day of whatever.
Basically, he was using the word "remember" like it's "remind."
I wonder if that's something from whatever his native (West African) language is, where you can use the same verb intransitively for "remember" and transitively for "remind," kind of like in English "the pot breaks" but also "he breaks the pot."
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