Re: Time in various languages...


"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:32:00 +0000, Thomas Widmann
> <twid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> <news:m3fynr2awf.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:
>> Does it mean 9:30 in any variety of English?
>
> I don't believe so. Unfortunately. 'Halb zehn' = 9:30
> makes sense; the English usage is thoroughly unreasonable.

Not at all! When half of the ten o'clock hour has gone past, it is half
ten - 10.30. What logic justifies the 'halb zehn' meaning? I've been
puzzling over that since my German friends first told me about it years ago.

Neeraj Mathur


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