• frank@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    Ugh okay here’s another “Danes shouldn’t be allowed to make number stuff”:

    The time 15:25 is “five minutes before half 4”

    “Fem minutter i halv fire”

    So you round up to 16 before even halfway, what!?

    • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I’m very Danish and refuse to adhere to this nonsense. It’s pronounced “three twenty-five”.

    • "no" banana@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      That makes perfect sense to me though. In Swedish we’d say fem i halv fyra. Five minutes to half four.

      But in English half four would be short for half past four. I guess.

      Counting like the Danish, however, that is an abomination.

      • frank@sopuli.xyz
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        3 days ago

        What’s wrong with “25 over 3?” I see the need for half 4 by itself but things being relative to that is so weird to me

        • "no" banana@lemmy.worldOP
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          3 days ago

          Well, it’s interesting because that would be the case with 15:20. That’d be tjugo över tre (twenty past three). But specifically 15:25 would be fem i halv fyra (five to half four). 15:35 is fem över halv fyra (five past half four).

          And then 15:40 is tjugo i fyra (twenty to four).

          So :25 and :35 are weird edge cases.