Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h...
by cubefox on Sunday November 05, 2023 @01:58PM
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Other languages write e.g. 6:00 instead of 6:00 am, and 18:00 instead of 6:00 pm. When you talk about analog clocks you can presumably say something like "it shows six o'clock in the afternoon". (What's the opposite of afternoon by the way? Morning? But isn't that the opposite of evening? Or just ante meridiem? But that's Latin.)
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Re:The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed h...
by SushiHippie on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:51PM
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In german there is "Vormittag" and "Nachmittag".
Vormittag is the time between the morning and noon.
Nachmittag is the time between noon and the evening.
Mittag = noon Vor = before -> "beforenoon" (literal translation of Vormittag) Nach = after -> "afternoon" (literal translation of Nachmittag)
But "vormittag" just translates to "morning" (with deepL and google translate).
Though there seems to exist "forenoon".