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#2 (permalink) Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:48 am High noon and midnight |
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Well, it could be high noon and (at) midnight.
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Torsten Learning Coach

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#3 (permalink) Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:34 am 12:00 am. or 12:00 pm |
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. I make a point of avoiding am. and pm., Abumashal, precisely because of the automatic confusion. I teach my students to use 12:00 noon and 12:00 midnight, just as I teach them is spell out the month rather than express it as a number-- 5 June 2005 or June 5, 2005, not 5/6/2005.
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Mister Micawber Language Coach
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#4 (permalink) Sun Jul 31, 2005 22:01 pm 12:00 am. or 12:00 pm |
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Thank you Torsten, Mister Micawber.
so I can say now It half past eleven highnoon/noon. |
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Abumashal New Member
Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Saudi arabia
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#5 (permalink) Sun Jul 31, 2005 23:20 pm 12:00 am. or 12:00 pm |
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There's the 24 hour clock too (I don't know if this is how they call it in English): 06:00 for eleven in the morning, and 18:00 for eleven in the afternoon, for example. When speaking, we hardly ever say "it's eighteen o'clock" in Spain, we say "it's six in the afternoon" instead, but for timetables the 24 hours clock is the only one we use. Actually, I think that the main reason that people here are so accustomed to this system, is that newspapers use it for the TV schedules.
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Carbonarius I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#6 (permalink) Mon Aug 01, 2005 0:39 am 12:00 am. or 12:00 pm |
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. The 24-hour clock, or 'military clock', as many Americans know it, is commonly used in Japan too.
For this American at least, it just adds one more level of grammatical confusion-- should there be a colon? (1300? 13:00?.... or 13.00, which is sometimes seen?) Should 'hours' be written after it? (1300 hrs, 13:00 h?) Or, god forfend, 'o'clock'? (13.00 o'clock?) The opportunities for argument seem endless!
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