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minus-square"no" banana@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-222 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-up2·21 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-221 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-up1·20 hours agoAgree - even “3 25” would be perfectly normal.
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.