• nednobbins@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Laughs in Austrian.

    The convention for (15-minute) fractional hours is to name the fraction of the time from the previous hour to the next one.

    eg:
    3:15 -> “viertel vier” = “quarter four”
    3:30 -> “halb vier” (“hoiba viere” in dialekt) = “half four”
    3:45 -> “dreiviertel vier” = “three quarters four”

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      8 months ago

      In Finland we use:

      3:15 viisitoista yli kolme = fifteen over three.
      3:30 puoli neljä = half four.
      3:45 viisitoista vaille neljä = fifteen short of four.

      We also use 24 hour clocks but if the dinner is at 17:30, it will just be said to be at half six and you figure am/pm out of context - if it’s ambiguous, we say “six in the morning / six in the evening”.

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        8 months ago

        In English, when they ask the time, we reply: Puolivälissä ohitti apinan perse. Because in English Puolivälissä rhymes with perse.