GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoI hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.message-squaremessage-square170fedilinkarrow-up1449arrow-down120
arrow-up1429arrow-down1message-squareI 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.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square170fedilink
minus-squaretiredofsametab@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 months agoI have never heard anything like that. “twenty 'til two” is what jumps to my mind. I’ve never heard <some relative time> and x minutes
minus-squareBruncvik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoThat’s how I was taught. Quarter past, half past, quarter to, and add to it the minutes. Then again, I was also taught to hide under my school desk in case of a nuclear attack. I think times may have changed slightly since then…
I have never heard anything like that. “twenty 'til two” is what jumps to my mind. I’ve never heard <some relative time> and x minutes
That’s how I was taught. Quarter past, half past, quarter to, and add to it the minutes. Then again, I was also taught to hide under my school desk in case of a nuclear attack. I think times may have changed slightly since then…