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minus-squarefrank@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·13 hours agoUgh okay here’s another “Danes shouldn’t be allowed to make number stuff”: The time 15:25 is “five minutes before half 4” “Fem minutter i halv fire” So you round up to 16 before even halfway, what!?
minus-squareRicaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoI’m very Danish and refuse to adhere to this nonsense. It’s pronounced “three twenty-five”.
minus-square"no" banana@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-213 hours agoThat makes perfect sense to me though. In Swedish we’d say fem i halv fyra. Five minutes to half four. But in English half four would be short for half past four. I guess. Counting like the Danish, however, that is an abomination.
minus-squarefrank@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 hours agoWhat’s wrong with “25 over 3?” I see the need for half 4 by itself but things being relative to that is so weird to me
minus-square"no" banana@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-211 hours agoWell, it’s interesting because that would be the case with 15:20. That’d be tjugo över tre (twenty past three). But specifically 15:25 would be fem i halv fyra (five to half four). 15:35 is fem över halv fyra (five past half four). And then 15:40 is tjugo i fyra (twenty to four). So :25 and :35 are weird edge cases.
minus-squarevandsjov@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agoAgree - even “3 25” would be perfectly normal.
minus-squarefenrasulfr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·12 hours agoSame in Dutch, “Vijf voor half vier”
minus-squareObi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoYeah the Dutch way of saying time is also messed up, I still have to think about it for a moment every time.
minus-squaresodamnfrolic@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agoYou can say the same in Poland. “Za pięć w pół do czwartej.”
Ugh okay here’s another “Danes shouldn’t be allowed to make number stuff”:
The time 15:25 is “five minutes before half 4”
“Fem minutter i halv fire”
So you round up to 16 before even halfway, what!?
I’m very Danish and refuse to adhere to this nonsense. It’s pronounced “three twenty-five”.
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That makes perfect sense to me though. In Swedish we’d say fem i halv fyra. Five minutes to half four.
But in English half four would be short for half past four. I guess.
Counting like the Danish, however, that is an abomination.
Man 3:25 is right there
What’s wrong with “25 over 3?” I see the need for half 4 by itself but things being relative to that is so weird to me
Well, it’s interesting because that would be the case with 15:20. That’d be tjugo över tre (twenty past three). But specifically 15:25 would be fem i halv fyra (five to half four). 15:35 is fem över halv fyra (five past half four).
And then 15:40 is tjugo i fyra (twenty to four).
So :25 and :35 are weird edge cases.
Agree - even “3 25” would be perfectly normal.
Same in Dutch,
“Vijf voor half vier”
Yeah the Dutch way of saying time is also messed up, I still have to think about it for a moment every time.
You can say the same in Poland. “Za pięć w pół do czwartej.”