quarter past nine is 9:15.
quarter to nine is 8:45

quarter of nine.. is eight fifteen?.. or.. ?


if you dont speak english as your first language, well, i guess you wont help.. (unless you google better than i do)

I would think "quarter of nine" would be 9:15 but I could be wrong.

nubs, it's 8:47.85
1/4 of 9 is 9/4 = (ONE) quarter of nine
=2.25%
100-2.25=
97.75

9*.9775=8.7975

(x/60=.7975 ... =47.85)

don't be 10th tier nubs

umm
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... meth and math,.despite only a singke vowel.. im lost.. lets wait for sobriety..?

but this said: a quarter of one is .25.. so a quarter of nine, in fractions of fifteens, would.. make it eight and fifteen.. no?

ive literally had english teachers not be able to answer.. going on a decade and a half and still i can not find an answer..

drugs may be to blame, heh..

also victoria makes new england an enjoyable place to be

Dude Huh? You've had English teachers that can't answer this?

In the English speaking world, quarter of nine is certainly 8:45. It isn't up for debate lol. It may be obscure but it's not a matter of opinion. It's 8:45 and for the reason I gave above

quarter of 9 is 845

EDIT: DO THEY NOT TEACH HOW TO TELL TIME IN CANUCKIA?

and vic i don't consider it obscure at all: it's how i word it every time i speak it. but i get varying responses.. some ask me what time, i say (in a twenty four hour clock), it's a quarter of nineteen hundred.. which i mean to say is six fifteen.. some people understand but generally most people simply look at their phone, though, and determine the time on their own

it is three aught seven in the am: is this fifty three of four or is this fifty three to four?

fifty three of four i understand to mean fifty three minutes of the fourth hour.. fifty three to four suggests, while in the third hour, that there is fifty three minutes until we change the hour..

what am i unable to wrap my head around on, for this?

lol i love you bradey. all i know is, in all of my 29 years, i've both said "quarter of" and have heard it more times than i can count. thousands and thousands ...
and i've never once encountered someone who thought "quarter of" meant anything other than 15 minutes before the hour :p

its quarter of 11 right now

and its friday

My mom and grandma say this stupid phrase

"Friday week" or "Tuesday week" etc. Meaning next Friday or Tuesday. It is madness I tell ya.

I have an appointment at quarter of noon Friday week


English is WACK

IN CANADA, TIME TELLS YOU!

I can honestly say I've never in all my life ever heard someone refer to time as quarter "OF" a particular hour. It's always been referred to as quarter "TO" a particular hour.

Braden must be a hipster

its on the east coast of usa too.

ive heard of, to, past...

http://david-crystal.blogspot.com/2009/05/on-quarter-of.html

i most certainly am nothing of the sort, savage.

That's exactly what a hipster would say

i have been told that i have a peculiar manner of speech, as in the way that i phrase sentences

You get a pass if you say no to all of these things.

Are you wearing excessively tight pants? An exemption occurs to this if you just fill out an older pair of pants that at one time fit properly

Black framed glasses?

Are you proud of the fact the very few people have heard of your favorite band?

i am wearing unaccompanied dress pants, not tight in the least.

i wear sunglasses when i go out to smoke, they are a dark brown with shaded lenses.

i believe a great many people have heard of celione dion or sinead oconnor.

i win, right?

lmao what are unaccompanied dress pants? like kramer pretty much, slacks with a non business shirt?
if so, boss

nope, when you wear a blazer or sports coat, you need pants still. the pants are essentially suit pants, but the fabric is different from the jacket.

for a suit you take one large swath of fabric, cut it in half, one half is for the pants and the other half is for the jacket.

for a suit the pants are accompanied. when the pants and the jacket are not from the same swath of cloth, the pants are then unaccompianied.

it is, i guess, called 'smart casual'. i dont frequent establishments where a sports coat would be overdressed.

im at a bar right now, not a dive or a sports, but a, to borrow a whiskey phrase, would be middle shelf.

i drink far too much to be able to afford the high class, flashy, downtown joints that i would like to frequent ( they are closer to the streetwalkers..)

dang and i thought "high class" and flashy were opposites :p

so you're rocking a blazer these days just to go out to a bar, but you don't rock one for work ...
definition of a hipster :p

i drive a forklift, and i clean up rather nicely. if hipster is a synonym for well dressed then i guess im guilty.

but hipsters are, in tarana at least, liberals. i dont even stop at red lights because the colour, i find, references the middle of the three socialist political parties of canada.

ambers are far too close to orange, so i oft throw caution to the wind.

(did i mention im the most handsome gentleman in the establishment?)

braden is what we like to call a dipster

(and im wearing a sports coat right now.. collared shirt, unacxompanied dtess pants and literally twelve pills of mdma.. somebody has a substance abuse problem, i reckon)

the difference between a sports coat and a blazer are subtle yet obvious. blazers have metal buttons whereas aports coats are.. plastic(?); think rick astley in his, i want to say the blue double breasted in never gonna break uour heart, blazer - sports coat, think sunday early afternoon brunch.. it is an 88% wool and 12% silk mix- which i think might be a sin. the jacket was my grandfathers, its older than i am, and worth twice as much.

thank you, vic. i so rarely get to discuss mens fashion :(

HAAA HAAAAAA HAA HA HA HA HA HAHA HAAAAAAAAA HAHAHHA
"(and im wearing a sports coat right now.. collared shirt, unacxompanied dtess pants and literally twelve pills of mdma.)"
lolollol

btw i love that you are goin collared shirt and sports coat, if done right can be a very boss move

i used to drive a forklift

i feel like we are twins

Your a forklift operator who's favorite bands are Celine Dion and sinaed O'Conner? ?? Am i the only one who finds something wrong with that picture ?

aahahah

jjterico: are we happier with the bee gees? would neil young be agreeable for you? bruce springsteen?
and im not at all a terribly photogenic person, so my guess would be that most pictures containing an image of me would, at the very least, be a shade off right.

vic: if i leave my front door not to work, i only ever dress where i would be welcomed in a catholic church.

ford: if we arent twins, ourselves, we can certainly ruin our livers with whisjy together, xouldnt we?

vic, again: the meth i am less than proud of. and i think i ended that sentence with a preposition which is less than class. also i think my heart may explode.. i havent been this high in a loong fuucking time. like high school.

trife: youd vote.. orange. ndp. borne of labour unions from the south of ontario.. we all thought a second virginia marginally west of the original was bad?.. well, we found worse.

vic: if i need take a.ribbing or two, its a price i am happy to pay for a xonversation on how grown men should present themselves to the world. at a certain time, men who couldnt afford meals for their children and waited in line for soup in a three piece suit, a top hat and a walking cane- men used to know self respect. what ever happend? :(

you dont look like you hold your whiskey very well. maybe we arnt twins after all!

i have trouble typing on a phone with two thumbs while i couldn't hold my hand still if you held a gun to my head..

alcohol doesn't make the idiot, i just happen to be drunk all of the time. what was it you were saying about correlation and causality?

Ford give Bradey a break, he just snacked on 5 rolls lol

This community gets more and more interesting as we grow older :P

Prove that time is real!

heaven yesterday.. today? can somebody put that gun to my head, please?

bruxism very well may be the death of me ( heart attack? pfft)

drinking just steals happiness from the next day

braden you didn't take your 5htp then

i could use some serotonin right now, yepp.

I agree that 'quarter of' is 15 min before the hour. Grew up hearing that and have said it all my life.

And, while I never picked up the usage, I immediately recognized 'tuesday week' for exactly what it means.

Thats all I have to say, so I will sign off at half-past this hour.