Yes, I get that too sometimes.Xephyr wrote:So 7:41 and 7:49 are both "Relaax, I got like a quarter of an hour still.", but 7:51 is "HolyshitIgottagetgoing".
German:dinnae wrote:13:20 twintig over één (twenty over one)
13:25 vijf voor half twee (five before half two)
13:30 half twee (half two)
13:35 vijf over half twee (five over half two)
13:40 twintig voor twee (twenty before two)
13:20 zwanzig nach eins (twenty after one)
13:25 fünf vor halb zwei (five before half two)
13:30 halb zwei (half two)
13:35 fünf nach halb zwei (five after half zwei)
13:40 zwanzig vor zwei (twenty before two)
"zehn nach halb" and "zehn vor halb" aren't unheard of either.
During my time of alternative army service I lived together with a couple of Saxons, and the Western-Germans of us sometimes made fun of their habit of saying "viertel" and "drei viertel" for :15 and :45 (see cedh's post above) by applying the same to :20 and :40 – "drittel" and "zwei drittel". After a time I got used to the "other" system though, so now I can handle both.