B737 PLT IS CONCERNED WITH CONFUSING TAXI INSTRUCTIONS AT DFW.

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AFTER ENG START AND APCH CHKLIST; RAMP CLRED US TO SPOT X FOR GND TO CONTACT US. XPONDER WAS ON. JUST AS I APCHED SPOT X; I HEARD SOME OTHER SPOT MENTIONED AND OUR SPOT X. TOLD TO TURN R ON TXWY K AND STANDARD TAXI TO RWY 35L. AS IS THE CASE; SOMETIMES YOU ARE GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS IN REF TO THE SPOT YOU ARE OCCUPYING AND THEN THE QUERY COMES FOR YOUR CALL SIGN. I FIGURED THAT WAS THE SIT. NO OTHER ACFT WERE ON TXWY K WITHIN A COUPLE OF HUNDRED YARDS; SO WE BEGAN A TAXI. THE GND CTLR WAS STILL GIVING TAXI INSTRUCTIONS TO OTHER ACFT WHEN I CALLED TO VERIFY OUR INSTRUCTIONS AND HE SAID HE HAD ACTUALLY GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS TO ANOTHER ACFT AND ASKED US WHERE WE WERE. HE IDENTED US AND TOLD US TO TAXI TO RWY 35L. THE GND CTLR DID NOT SEEM TO HAVE ISSUE WITH THE SIT AND WAS RATHER BUSY. I DO APPRECIATE THE PROFESSIONALISM OF OUR DFW CTLRS; THIS JUST SEEMED TO BE A MISCOM; BUT I DID NOT LIKE THE WAY IT HAPPENED. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO COMPLY WITHOUT ACKNOWLEDGING YOUR CALL SIGN -- THAT CAN BE UNCOMFORTABLE. OUR DOUBTS CAME AFTER WE WERE ON THE TXWY. NO CONFLICT CAME AS A RESULT OF THIS SIT. I WOULD PREFER THAT WE ACKNOWLEDGE OUR CALL SIGN BEFORE CTLRS GO ON TO THE NEXT ACFT; BUT I KNOW THAT MIGHT SLOW THINGS DOWN FOR THEM. FOR MY PART; I WILL DOUBLECHK AND NOT MOVE IN THE FUTURE.