• smeg@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure if this meme is doubly trolling me here, but please tell me nobody says “a quarter til ten” instead of “quarter to ten”!

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      1 year ago

      In german you’d just say quarter ten, half ten and three quarters ten for 9:15, 9:30 and 9:45 respectively

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          1 year ago

          Though not every region in Germany will do that, some think it’s stupid, but it makes sense to me.

          Quarter ten for example means a quarter of the tenth hour is over, so 9:15. There’s good logic behind it, at least

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            What? That must be a bavaria/switzerland/austria thing. I never heard this. hearing quarter ten (Viertel zehn?) i’d assume 10:15 and most definitly not 09:15 0.o I’ll stay with quarter before ten for (viertel vor zehn) 09:45 and quarter after ten (viertel nach zehn) for 10:15.