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Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by anonemouse145 on Friday May 05, 2017 @07:25PM (#14277576)
Yes we do. What we don't do is the German- we don't say "halb sechs" (half to six, 5:30). We would say "half past five".

Many people are used to telling precise time from being insanely overworked all the time, so you need to say it is precisely 5:33 because 5:27 is a world of difference.

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Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by Swizec on Friday May 05, 2017 @07:28PM (#14277589)
FWIW I once missed a flight because I remembered that my flight was at "half past" and there was a flight to the same destination at 6:25am and at 6:30am. At the same terminal. On different gates.

Didn't even keep reading the board after I spotted the 6:25 flight. It was the wrong one.

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