Comment on Just speak normally

allroy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I knew a mathy type who would occasionally jokingly say “a third past”

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think Kafka used stuff like “two and a third” sometimes

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• hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Right?!

  Quarter til, quarter after…those are easy to understand. Same goes for half past.

  But quarter of? I have no idea how that relates to the passage of time.

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