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Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by bitwize on Friday May 05, 2017 @07:02PM (#14277455)
In English we have expressions like "a quarter till five" too. But usually, everything up to and including the half-hour is reckoned in terms of the past whole hour.
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Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by throwaway7645 on Friday May 05, 2017 @08:41PM (#14277959)
To make it slightly more ambiguous you could say "quarter till", but I suppose to know that you'd have to know basically know that the next hour is 5 in your example, although a scenario could exist where you know how much time till the next hour but not what the current time is.
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Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by delinka on Friday May 05, 2017 @09:29PM (#14278152)
To me, "quarter 'til" assumes the listener knows the next hour, not that the speaker doesn't know the next hour.
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