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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Formatting time in clockapplet.po, how does it work?
From:       Lauri Watts <lauri () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-02-28 2:27:30
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On Wednesday 27 February 2002 21.54, Malcolm Hunter wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 Feb 2002 17:49, Stefan Asserhäll wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 februari 2002 11.33, Rinse de Vries wrote:
> > > In The netherlands, half past 1 = half 2  (half before 2)
> > > twentyfive past 1 = vijf voor half 2 (five minutes before half
> > > before 2) Then, are these translations correct?
> >
> > No. The same is true in Swedish, where half past 1 = halv 1, and
> > twenty five past 1 = fem i halv 2. The correct translations are:
>
> I guess people must get really confused when we brits use the slang
> "half one" meaning half past one :¬).

For the entire first year we were together, my (Swedish) husband thought 
I was incorrigibly, and inexplicably, an hour late for things.  It took 
that long for his scandinavian politeness to break down enough to 
actually mention it, I'd thought I was on time all along.

It seems it's often the very smallest of things that cause the greatest 
difficulty in the translation :)

-- 
Lauri Watts




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