Re: Time in various languages...


Neeraj Mathur wrote:
> "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1nyg56iccd80l$.1kvafxls58u4q.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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.

Half of the 10th hour; the same as "half of 10" in English.

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