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So I contacted a Chinese guy I knew a few years ago on a social network, he wrote he couldn't remember who I was =* and 名字对不上人

Could someone explain to me what this means?

does 人 refer to him, or me, or neither?

and what is the meaning of the resultative 上 here?

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对不上 means cannot match together. Here, you could think of 上 as "together". So 名字对不上人 would be something like "cannot match the name to a person". In other words, you tell him your name, but he cannot recall the corresponding person (you).

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thanks for the answers.

@anonymoose thanks for the details, I understand how the sentence works now.

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