I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 420 points – 4 months ago170Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentEven worse than that imo is 'quarter of'. I swear to god it's been used to mean both before or after whatever hour they're talking aboutmfrs think I know what hours its close to when I probably don't know the day and am lucky to know what month it is.Anyone using "quarter of" to mean X:15 is just incorrect. That's "quarter after".When you say quarter of, you are supposed to say the next hour. Quarter after 4 is a quarter of 5.That's... I guess that makes sense but that's really weird and ambiguous.Quarter after four is 4:15. Quarter of five is 4:45. Also quarter to five and quarter til five. I'm seeing other comments that suggest I might be wrong. Especially in regards to other languages.I would not have guessed that meaning of "of." I think we should stick to "til" or "past" for clarity.
Even worse than that imo is 'quarter of'. I swear to god it's been used to mean both before or after whatever hour they're talking aboutmfrs think I know what hours its close to when I probably don't know the day and am lucky to know what month it is.Anyone using "quarter of" to mean X:15 is just incorrect. That's "quarter after".When you say quarter of, you are supposed to say the next hour. Quarter after 4 is a quarter of 5.That's... I guess that makes sense but that's really weird and ambiguous.Quarter after four is 4:15. Quarter of five is 4:45. Also quarter to five and quarter til five. I'm seeing other comments that suggest I might be wrong. Especially in regards to other languages.I would not have guessed that meaning of "of." I think we should stick to "til" or "past" for clarity.
mfrs think I know what hours its close to when I probably don't know the day and am lucky to know what month it is.
Anyone using "quarter of" to mean X:15 is just incorrect. That's "quarter after".When you say quarter of, you are supposed to say the next hour. Quarter after 4 is a quarter of 5.That's... I guess that makes sense but that's really weird and ambiguous.Quarter after four is 4:15. Quarter of five is 4:45. Also quarter to five and quarter til five. I'm seeing other comments that suggest I might be wrong. Especially in regards to other languages.I would not have guessed that meaning of "of." I think we should stick to "til" or "past" for clarity.
When you say quarter of, you are supposed to say the next hour. Quarter after 4 is a quarter of 5.That's... I guess that makes sense but that's really weird and ambiguous.Quarter after four is 4:15. Quarter of five is 4:45. Also quarter to five and quarter til five. I'm seeing other comments that suggest I might be wrong. Especially in regards to other languages.I would not have guessed that meaning of "of." I think we should stick to "til" or "past" for clarity.
Quarter after four is 4:15. Quarter of five is 4:45. Also quarter to five and quarter til five. I'm seeing other comments that suggest I might be wrong. Especially in regards to other languages.
I would not have guessed that meaning of "of." I think we should stick to "til" or "past" for clarity.
Even worse than that imo is 'quarter of'. I swear to god it's been used to mean both before or after whatever hour they're talking about
mfrs think I know what hours its close to when I probably don't know the day and am lucky to know what month it is.
Anyone using "quarter of" to mean X:15 is just incorrect. That's "quarter after".
When you say quarter of, you are supposed to say the next hour. Quarter after 4 is a quarter of 5.
That's... I guess that makes sense but that's really weird and ambiguous.
Quarter after four is 4:15.
Quarter of five is 4:45. Also quarter to five and quarter til five.
I'm seeing other comments that suggest I might be wrong. Especially in regards to other languages.
I would not have guessed that meaning of "of." I think we should stick to "til" or "past" for clarity.