@[email protected] to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 7 months agoI hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.message-square169fedilinkarrow-up1451arrow-down120
arrow-up1431arrow-down1message-squareI hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.@[email protected] to ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 7 months agomessage-square169fedilink
minus-squaretiredofsametablinkfedilink10•7 months agoI have never heard anything like that. “twenty 'til two” is what jumps to my mind. I’ve never heard <some relative time> and x minutes
minus-square@Bruncviklink2•7 months agoThat’s how I was taught. Quarter past, half past, quarter to, and add to it the minutes. Then again, I was also taught to hide under my school desk in case of a nuclear attack. I think times may have changed slightly since then…
I have never heard anything like that. “twenty 'til two” is what jumps to my mind. I’ve never heard <some relative time> and x minutes
That’s how I was taught. Quarter past, half past, quarter to, and add to it the minutes. Then again, I was also taught to hide under my school desk in case of a nuclear attack. I think times may have changed slightly since then…