Re: One And A Half

Quoting Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>:

> My mum once told me that
> Allemanic as it is spoken in Lörrach and surroundings (at the end of the
> southwestern tip of Germany) has "fünfviertel" ?[fYm"f:i6tl=]. Our Swiss
> people might know that term as well.
Does that mean "five quarters"? (It certainly looks like it should!)

In Swedish, a time period of 45 minutes is commonly refered to as _tre kvart_,
lit "three quarter". My 'lect also has _fem kvart_ (_fem_ "five") for one of 75
minutes, but I've had to learn to use it with some thought, since from too many
people it simply occasions blank stares. One could have thought it the meaning
would be obvious to anyone familiar with the _tre kvart_ expression, but it's
clearly not.

You can also say _tre kvarts X_ "three quarters of (an) X".

                                                 Andreas