Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds

Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by jerryszczerry on Friday May 05, 2017 @08:21PM (#14277855)

I don't know if you can do it in Norwegian, but in colloquial Polish it's possible to specify how much time will pass until the next full hour without specifying what hour it is.

So, it's possible to say, for instance: „Jest dwadzieścia po” [It is twenty past X] or „Jest za dziesięć wpół do” [It is ten till half X], regarding your first example.

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Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by mveety on Saturday May 06, 2017 @12:21AM (#14278653)

You can do it in swedish in a similar way, so I would think this is possible, too, in norwegian (the languages are really quite similar).

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Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by scq on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:27PM (#14278510)

I've heard this in colloquial English too, e.g. "It's quarter to, I'd better get going".

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Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by Broken_Hippo on Saturday May 06, 2017 @08:13AM (#14279892)

I know it is possible in English, and one assumes the other know the whole hour one is referring to. I'm not sure about Norwegian - that bit isn't something that has cropped up in my personal vocabulary yet. :)

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Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by mbroncano on Friday May 05, 2017 @09:35PM (#14278176)

Same for colloquial Spanish indeed

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