• smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    161·
    2 years ago

    I’m not sure if this meme is doubly trolling me here, but please tell me nobody says “a quarter til ten” instead of “quarter to ten”!

    • FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      What’s the difference?

      Maybe it’s having been raised in the south, but I’m used to hearing both. Maybe it’s a regional difference?

      Though if I go for til these days, I’m more likely to say until rather than just til lol

        • Pyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I’ve only ever heard “to” as well, never “til”. Although the latter does make more sense, the former rolls off the tongue a lot easier.

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      In german you’d just say quarter ten, half ten and three quarters ten for 9:15, 9:30 and 9:45 respectively

        • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          Though not every region in Germany will do that, some think it’s stupid, but it makes sense to me.

          Quarter ten for example means a quarter of the tenth hour is over, so 9:15. There’s good logic behind it, at least

          • Koordinator O@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 years ago

            What? That must be a bavaria/switzerland/austria thing. I never heard this. hearing quarter ten (Viertel zehn?) i’d assume 10:15 and most definitly not 09:15 0.o I’ll stay with quarter before ten for (viertel vor zehn) 09:45 and quarter after ten (viertel nach zehn) for 10:15.

            • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
              11·
              2 years ago

              Another member of the “til” gang here!

              I would also completely understand “to”, though, but I just don’t use it.

              Those “quarter of” weirdos can fuck directly off though. That one makes zero sense to me haha.