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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allroy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
my parents always say it’s “quarter of”. I can’t make it make sense.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I knew a mathy type who would occasionally jokingly say “a third past”
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I think Kafka used stuff like “two and a third” sometimes