Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
Dec 10th 2009, 12:42 am
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Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
I asked my son this morning what time lunch ended at school and he said forty-five past one, I looked at him strangely and said don't you mean quarter to two or 1.45, no he said everyone says it like that.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Dec 10th 2009, 1:21 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
I asked my son this morning what time lunch ended at school and he said forty-five past one, I looked at him strangely and said don't you mean quarter to two or 1.45, no he said everyone says it like that.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
What part of Australia are you in ?
Dec 10th 2009, 1:31 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
I asked my son this morning what time lunch ended at school and he said forty-five past one, I looked at him strangely and said don't you mean quarter to two or 1.45, no he said everyone says it like that.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Dec 10th 2009, 1:55 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
I asked my son this morning what time lunch ended at school and he said forty-five past one, I looked at him strangely and said don't you mean quarter to two or 1.45, no he said everyone says it like that.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
I've never heard anyone say 45 minutes past 1, although I might have said it when I was a kid learning English as a second language.
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Dec 10th 2009, 1:56 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
I asked my son this morning what time lunch ended at school and he said forty-five past one, I looked at him strangely and said don't you mean quarter to two or 1.45, no he said everyone says it like that.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Dec 10th 2009, 2:23 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
We live in regional WA, my wife has commented on it aswell when she has been doing relief teaching.
Dec 10th 2009, 2:44 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
Dec 10th 2009, 3:24 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
I asked my son this morning what time lunch ended at school and he said forty-five past one, I looked at him strangely and said don't you mean quarter to two or 1.45, no he said everyone says it like that.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Dec 10th 2009, 4:08 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
In my world it would be nearly 2 
I work in a school and have never heard it spoken like that, everyone does it the 'normal' way. Must be a woop woop thing
Dec 10th 2009, 4:16 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
yep, it has to be a woop-woop thing. They come out with all sorts of weird and wonderful things out woop-woop.
Dec 10th 2009, 5:38 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
I asked my son this morning what time lunch ended at school and he said forty-five past one, I looked at him strangely and said don't you mean quarter to two or 1.45, no he said everyone says it like that.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Then it clicked I have had some very strange looks of children at school this year when they ask me the time and I say it like you would in the UK, obviously it is more common where we are to say how many minutes it is past the hour.
Dec 10th 2009, 5:43 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
What worries me is when I hear *adults* saying so many sleeps until ...........
Dec 10th 2009, 6:59 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
They say it in Tas too, my kids never said it until we came here but I've noticed it a few times now.
Definitely very odd but then again so is Tas
Sam
Definitely very odd but then again so is Tas
Sam
He's now 24 and still says it.
Dec 10th 2009, 8:23 am
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Re: Has anyone else noticed that kids tell the time differently over here?
My eldest (15) says 45 past as well. We live in Sydney. He never used to say it in the UK.