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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•12 days agoTime is weird. Even in the same language some people will tell time differently. In French my parents are used to fractions while I don’t. So for me 9:45 is nine hours fourty five but for them it’s ten hours minus the quarter.
minus-squareCanadian_Cabinet linkfedilink0•12 days agoYou can go both ways in Spanish, but “hour minus X” is definitely less popular with younger people. Does any time in the latter half work with that approach in French? For example, in Spanish you can call 9:39 “10 minus 21”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•12 days agoIt works and would be understood but it would also be odd. The unwritten rule is to round up to a multiple of 5.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink0•12 days ago but for them it’s ten hours minus the quarter. Wait, what?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•12 days agoI think it’s similar to saying “quarter to ten”, and I suspect it’s a result of how numbers/counting work in French.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•12 days agoYep. French Canadian is the same: 9:45 - 10 hours less a quarter Dix heures moin la quart 8:15 - 8 hours and quarter Huit heures et quart
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•12 days agoPolice cant stop us. Im cracking up at the police coming because it is illegal to tell the time this way.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•12 days agoHave you ever tried to tell the French what to do? :) Note, it’s partly why I respect my fellow French Canadians
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•12 days agoIn west Germany, it would be viertel vor zehn (quarter before ten) while in the East, it would be dreiviertel zehn (three-quarter ten).
Time is weird. Even in the same language some people will tell time differently.
In French my parents are used to fractions while I don’t. So for me 9:45 is nine hours fourty five but for them it’s ten hours minus the quarter.
You can go both ways in Spanish, but “hour minus X” is definitely less popular with younger people. Does any time in the latter half work with that approach in French? For example, in Spanish you can call 9:39 “10 minus 21”
It works and would be understood but it would also be odd. The unwritten rule is to round up to a multiple of 5.
Wait, what?
I think it’s similar to saying “quarter to ten”, and I suspect it’s a result of how numbers/counting work in French.
Yep. French Canadian is the same:
9:45 - 10 hours less a quarter
Dix heures moin la quart
8:15 - 8 hours and quarter
Huit heures et quart
How was this allowed to happen
Police cant stop us.
Im cracking up at the police coming because it is illegal to tell the time this way.
Have you ever tried to tell the French what to do? :)
Note, it’s partly why I respect my fellow French Canadians
In west Germany, it would be viertel vor zehn (quarter before ten) while in the East, it would be dreiviertel zehn (three-quarter ten).
Yay for West Germany