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dandroid@dandroid.app 11 months agoMy mom grew up saying “tonic”…
She also says “quarter of 8” when it is 7:45, which never made sense to me either. I usually hear quarter til 8 or quarter after 8 (for 8:15). Never quarter of. And wherever I point out that the phrase doesn’t really make much sense, she does this whole hand motion to explain it, which just confuses me even more.
It’s those Bostonians, man. Gotta watch out for them. They say weird stuff.
SARGEx117@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That made me physically recoil, “quarter of 8” just sounds so clunky.
99% of the time here, it’s just directly stating the time. Sometimes a Gen x will say “half past” or “quarter past” but not often anymore. I’ve never heard “quarter OF”
Your mom dun talk weird