Re: Clockwise without clocks

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 12:13:26 +0200, Carsten Becker
<naranoieati@...> wrote:

> I'd answer e.g. "Just half
>past ten ago" and would hear from another corner of the
>classroom "No, he's wrong, it's nine-thirty-two".
Of course I'd be wrong! That should have been "half past nine"! German is so
stupid by parsing "half ten" as "half past nine", or rather "half *to* ten".

c.

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