GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoI hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.message-squaremessage-square168fedilinkarrow-up1451arrow-down120
arrow-up1431arrow-down1message-squareI hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square168fedilink
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minus-squarericecake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up19·2 years agoThere was a solid decade where the pattern broke, and so e people didn’t get back into it. Two thousand, two thousand one etc don’t really work as “twenty oh-one”, etc.
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minus-squareBlemboTheThird@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoCalling them “the aughts” is also the best way I’ve found to refer to that decade
minus-squaretiredofsametab@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·2 years agoI was taught in the '80s that you shouldn’t use ‘and’ in a number that isn’t followed by a decimal portion (e.g. 23 and 4 hundredths). I’ve seen various back-and-forth on that topic over the years.
minus-squarecriitz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoIt goes nineteen ninety-eight nineteen ninety-nine two thousand two thousand one two thousand two … two thousand nine twenty ten twenty eleven etc
minus-squareWhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 years agoAnd stay offa mah lawn!
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·edit-22 years agoThis is literally the first time I’ve ever heard the term “analog clock”. Also, the title of the book (and film) is not 1984. It’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. But I’m not a boomer, I’m genx, so whatever. I’m outta heeeere… 😎
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoone thousand nine hundred and eighty-four
minus-squaresouthernbrewer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoWhat else would you call an analog clock?
minus-squareThistledown@rblind.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoCan you really say “1984” with confidence either way given Big Brother?
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There was a solid decade where the pattern broke, and so e people didn’t get back into it.
Two thousand, two thousand one etc don’t really work as “twenty oh-one”, etc.
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Calling them “the aughts” is also the best way I’ve found to refer to that decade
I was taught in the '80s that you shouldn’t use ‘and’ in a number that isn’t followed by a decimal portion (e.g. 23 and 4 hundredths). I’ve seen various back-and-forth on that topic over the years.
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And stay offa mah lawn!
This is literally the first time I’ve ever heard the term “analog clock”.
Also, the title of the book (and film) is not 1984. It’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
But I’m not a boomer, I’m genx, so whatever. I’m outta heeeere… 😎
one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four
What else would you call an analog clock?
A clock
Can you really say “1984” with confidence either way given Big Brother?