▲ 1075 ▼ America (lemmy.ml) submitted 4 months ago by InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 197 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (2 children) Yep, though we also have "Klokken halv 4" which is especially confusing for foreigners permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) I don't speak the language, but this looks like it would literally translate to something like "half of the fourth hour" which in English we might say as "half past three". Kind of interesting that we might say "quarter to four" to mean 3:45, but never "half til four" to mean 3:30. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago Yup, it is just half an hour before, very commonly used here. There's some other English language (Australian?) where it means the opposite - totally not confusing. We also use quarter to/quarter past as well of course permalink fedilink source parent [–] Aufgehtsabgehts@feddit.org 1 point 4 months ago Some people from eastern parts of germany go with stuff like "Dreiviertel 3" - three-quarters 3 - 14:45 Uhr. A good way of keeping the time-information secret, I am certainly too slow to translate that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) I don't speak the language, but this looks like it would literally translate to something like "half of the fourth hour" which in English we might say as "half past three". Kind of interesting that we might say "quarter to four" to mean 3:45, but never "half til four" to mean 3:30. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago Yup, it is just half an hour before, very commonly used here. There's some other English language (Australian?) where it means the opposite - totally not confusing. We also use quarter to/quarter past as well of course permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago Yup, it is just half an hour before, very commonly used here. There's some other English language (Australian?) where it means the opposite - totally not confusing. We also use quarter to/quarter past as well of course permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aufgehtsabgehts@feddit.org 1 point 4 months ago Some people from eastern parts of germany go with stuff like "Dreiviertel 3" - three-quarters 3 - 14:45 Uhr. A good way of keeping the time-information secret, I am certainly too slow to translate that. permalink fedilink source parent
