Re: Time in various languages...


Neeraj Mathur wrote:
> minutes after 9 or 9.30 and finish at 10. This is the way that human minds
> instinctively work - that's why prices are always xx9.99, and that seems to
> have proved rather well-attuned to producing bankable results for shops.

In the UK, before decimal currency, the trick was to price (say) suits
in guineas rather than pounds, not to price them at ...11p.

> That's why 'half 10' meaning 'halfway through all those times that start
> with 10' is rather the opposite of 'thoroughly unreasonable'.

.... but we used an expression (similar to the German one we just saw)
in Indian English to express age; "I'm running 10" meant "I'm past nine
and will be 10".

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