Norwegians have a bizarre method of informing others of the time of day. For one thing, when the big hand is on the 6, Norwegians say that the time is half of whatever time it will be in 30 minutes. So 9:30 would be "half 10", 10:30 would be "half 11", and so on.
That's minor, though. The stranger thing is that whenever the big hand is somewhere on the lower half of the clock, the reference point becomes the 6 rather than the 12. So, 9:30 would be "5 after half 10", 10:20 would be "10 to half 11", 5:33 would be "3 after half 6", and so on. I have no idea how Norwegian civilization advanced with such an unnecessarily complicated and long method of expressing time.
Moreover, they don't have an a.m./p.m. to express morning and night. Sure, they use the 24-hour clock sometimes, but that's a relatively recent adoption. Before that, I'm assuming they had to add "in the morning" or "in the evening" or some such to every expression of time.
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So, it's 14 after half nine in the morning here. Yeah. That's too cumbersome...
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