• smeg@feddit.uk
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    11 months 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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      11 months ago

      What’s the difference?

      Maybe it’s having been raised in the south, but I’m used to hearing both. Maybe it’s a regional difference?

      Though if I go for til these days, I’m more likely to say until rather than just til lol

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        11 months ago

        The difference is I’ve never heard anyone say “quarter til ten” before so it sounds very strange. As for it being a regional difference I guess it depends what region of the world you were raised in the south of!

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          11 months ago

          I’ve only ever heard “to” as well, never “til”. Although the latter does make more sense, the former rolls off the tongue a lot easier.

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      11 months 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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          11 months 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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            11 months ago

            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.

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      11 months ago

      First time I’m hearing of it also. Like “cowboy time” doesn’t work if its “til”

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        11 months ago

        Well it’s language, it’s pretty arbitrary, you say what you learned rather than what makes the most sense

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            11 months ago

            You’ve pulled back the curtain to reveal horrors beyond my imagination!

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              11 months ago

              Another member of the “til” gang here!

              I would also completely understand “to”, though, but I just don’t use it.

              Those “quarter of” weirdos can fuck directly off though. That one makes zero sense to me haha.