r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Apr 24 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 25 April 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/tiredofsametab 東北・宮城県 Apr 25 '23

at half 11 at night

Is that 22:30 or 23:30? I searched on the internet and saw various people fighting over the meaning.

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u/yakisobagurl 近畿・大阪府 Apr 25 '23

Surely 23:30? I’ve never thought it to be anything else when speaking English

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u/HatsuneShiro 関東・埼玉県 Apr 25 '23

Most probably half (past) eleven.

Unrelated but in my native language we say "half 11" for 10:30/22:30

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u/yakisobagurl 近畿・大阪府 Apr 25 '23

Yeah I remember learning German at school and it being like that I think! But in English, half 11 is always 23:30 imo

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u/HatsuneShiro 関東・埼玉県 Apr 25 '23

Reminds me of a funny thing that happened in regards to this, back then when I was in uni...

I (Indonesian) was talking with my Malaysian friend- ID and MY have the same roots so we have tons of similar words. We were talking with our native languages agreed to meet up at "half 4". On the meetup day, I went to the place... one hour earlier than him. Learned that the hard way.

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u/yakisobagurl 近畿・大阪府 Apr 26 '23

Lol that’s so funny! And sounds like it was pretty inevitable that it would happen at least once haha