It works and would be understood but it would also be odd. The unwritten rule is to round up to a multiple of 5.
pedz
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Yeah, as in, if you take a quarter of an hour (15 minutes) from 10, it's 9:45.
They also use minus ten, minus twenty or even minus twenty-five.
Ten hours minus twenty-five is 9:35.
Ten hours minus twenty is 9:40.
Ten hours minus (a/the) quarter is 9:45.
Ten hours minus ten is 9:50.
I find it confusing and never got used to this system. It feels old fashioned and it's not even faster to say. But it's still pretty common while being informal.
Time is weird. Even in the same language some people will tell time differently.
In French my parents are used to fractions while I don't. So for me 9:45 is nine hours fourty five but for them it's ten hours minus the quarter.
Oh they have responses. Just shitty ones. Some will tell you that they are arming themselves, while others will tell you that it's the fault of those that didn't vote enough.
Best of luck to them at the next election. Meanwhile they can just buy more guns. They will be totally useful when the militarized fascist authorities will kidnap and deport them to El Salvador.
I do first level tech support for a living and help people with Windows and Microsoft products.
When I come home, I turn on my Linux PC and it just works. I don’t want to maintain a Windows system at home because it feels like work and I don’t want to work at home.
Soon Trump will issue an executive order making it illegal not to visit the US. Everyone in the world not visiting the US because of boycott will be sent to a Salvadoran gulag.
The Ministry of Plenty announced that the egg prices have decreased by 20% last week.
I'm sure it also has nothing to do with the fact that it's a woman.
If only those idiots wouldn't be on public roads. Cars are already one of the most dangerous thing in the US. No need to add even more deadly metal boxes everywhere.
Il y a toujours la possibilité de trouver la saison 2, euh... quelque part 🏴☠️.
I'm still unsure about stuff made locally but owned by American corporations.
And I unfortunately know about some of the 24% that don't boycott. My sister told me she and her partner "didn't care about politics". They were unfortunately also whining that masks are useless and that truckers were right. But they don't care about politics, apparently.
The US skipped all the other dominoes and went straight to fascism.