Google| Subject | Re: Even *MORE* Scandinavian linguistics; was: Republicanism still an offence in England? |
| From | Troels Forchhammer |
| Date | 2002-05-17 16:46 (2002-05-17 15:46) |
| Message-ID | <3ce517d6$1@news.wineasy.se> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | Raven |
"Raven" <jonlennart.beck@get2net.dk>wrote:
RavenThe English people I've met recently (living about 100 km north of London) used half four as half past four - utterly confusing some of our younger scouts (and occasionally us leaders as well).
"Speaking Clock" <ext2350FOOTWEAR@pobox.com>skrev i en meddelelse news:abui29$l9fam$1@ID-93488.news.dfncis.de...Ooh, that's tricky. So is "fems" five score? It reminds me of the way Germans tell the time. "Halb vier" (half to four) they say, for half past three. It makes catching trains interesting if you're a foreigner!"Fems" for "a hundred" is just my own little joke. Danish for five score is "hundrede". But in Scandinavia we also say "halv fire" for "half past three". I don't know if my memory is faulty, or it *is* possible to say "half four" in English as "half past three".
-- Troels Forchhammer Please reply to t.forch@mail.dk
A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal sized billiard balls. -- (Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic)
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