I feel this is going to fade, though. Today’s kids have digital clocks (and it’s been that way for quite some time now), they read (and repeat) exactly what’s written there, like 7:26. The whole “in five minutes, it’s half to eight” is mainly because of the clock hands on an old-school time-telling device. With those, you have a quick look and see the minute hand is almost at the bottom, in fact it’ll be there in 5 minutes. And that’s why you say it like that.
My youngest flatly refuses to use, or acknowledge the existence of the " half past, 10 to"etc system. I’ll get “yeah but what’s that not in stupid time” ? if I don’t say 715 or whatever. Annoying teenagers lol.
Same as you fill a glass of milk: a quarter, a half, three quarters, full…
As a native English speaker, my brain actually breaks trying to convert the time to north and eastern European
Hello. From the people that brought you the Christmas shitting log i bring you a quarter and ten of eight (“un quart i deu de vuit”).
oh my god. I just realized Trump is emulating the fucking Parks and Rec scene
Republicans forgot this was supposed to be a joke
