Even worse than that imo is ‘quarter of’. I swear to god it’s been used to mean both before or after whatever hour they’re talking about
I did the same thing with my parents, mostly because they’d just say “quarter after” but would never say any number. If you made a word cloud of everything I’ve ever said in my life, “after what” would be gigantic in the center with every other word tiny around the edges.
PoopingCough@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Willy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
mfrs think I know what hours its close to when I probably don’t know the day and am lucky to know what month it is.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Anyone using “quarter of” to mean X:15 is just incorrect. That’s “quarter after”.
John_McMurray@lemmy.world 6 months ago
When you say quarter of, you are supposed to say the next hour. Quarter after 4 is a quarter of 5.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s… I guess that makes sense but that’s really weird and ambiguous.
thistledown@rblind.com 6 months ago
I would not have guessed that meaning of “of.” I think we should stick to “til” or “past” for clarity.
bobagem@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Quarter after four is 4:15.
Quarter of five is 4:45. Also quarter to five and quarter til five.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 months ago
EVERY TIME
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This just triggered a deep memory from within me. My brother used to say “half past” when I asked him the time, and when I would say “half past what?” the response was always “Half past the monkeys ass, a quarter to his balls”
I still don’t know what it means or where it came from, but when I was 8 years old, it was hilarious.