Just speak normallyThe Picard Maneuver@startrek.websitemod to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 1016 points – 10 months ago83Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsmy parents always say it's "quarter of". I can't make it make sense.I knew a mathy type who would occasionally jokingly say "a third past"I think Kafka used stuff like "two and a third" sometimesRight?! Quarter til, quarter after...those are easy to understand. Same goes for half past. But quarter of? I have no idea how that relates to the passage of time.
my parents always say it's "quarter of". I can't make it make sense.I knew a mathy type who would occasionally jokingly say "a third past"I think Kafka used stuff like "two and a third" sometimesRight?! Quarter til, quarter after...those are easy to understand. Same goes for half past. But quarter of? I have no idea how that relates to the passage of time.
I knew a mathy type who would occasionally jokingly say "a third past"I think Kafka used stuff like "two and a third" sometimes
Right?! Quarter til, quarter after...those are easy to understand. Same goes for half past. But quarter of? I have no idea how that relates to the passage of time.
my parents always say it's "quarter of". I can't make it make sense.
I knew a mathy type who would occasionally jokingly say "a third past"
I think Kafka used stuff like "two and a third" sometimes
Right?!
Quarter til, quarter after...those are easy to understand. Same goes for half past.
But quarter of? I have no idea how that relates to the passage of time.