"Five of Nine" equals what time?

Page 9 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
CZroe

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
24,195
857
126
FWIW, I was working a graveyard shift back when I made this thread and a lot of my posts were hurriedly made in a sleepless haze. I think I made my points though.

ShawnD1 said:
yay bumping old thread to say I've said this before :D
Doesn't work with "midnight thirty" because it's too many syllables

This thread reminds me of how newfies say "where's he to" when asking about a person's current location.
Click to expand...

Heard this all my life:
Person 1 to Person 2: "Well, I'm off to CA on vacation."
Person 3: "Where's he gone off to?"
Person 2: "California."

I've never heard it like you are saying it though.
 
Last edited:
coldmeat

coldmeat

Diamond Member
Jul 10, 2007
9,234
142
106
This makes absolutely no sense and you would have to be retarded to say that.

Maybe it started as something like "5 off 9" or "5 off of 9" and just changed to "of" because of laziness?
 
CZroe

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
24,195
857
126
TheVrolok said:
Because, by definition, "of" can mean "before" in the context of time. Fucking Dictionary. :(
Click to expand...

Which means it doesn't make sense in ANY other context and it therefore MEANINGLESS to those have have never heard it in context. And you know why it is defined as "before" in that specific context? Because enough idiots used it to mean that so it got in the dictionary. That doesn't make it OK to use. There are many, many, many things that are technically correct that professionals are not supposed to do. It's why you simply do not see the mainstream media using it. No newspaper articles, national televisions shows, Hollywood movies, or TV shows. If I decided to write a song called "10 of Noon," my record label would be doing their job if they identified a problem with it that I might not be aware of and asked me, as an artist, to change the name based on reason and logic. The lyrics can stay the same. If I didn't have an artistic reason to keep the name the "wrong" way, I'd change it because I, too, would like to be a "professional."

Edit: "Until" means the same thing in and out of the context of time and can be understood without self-defining like "of in the context of time" requires, therefore it is the "more correct" way to communicate it (word construction has inherent meaning in the English language even with each word taken at face value). Oh! And it isn't even consistent within the context of time. See below.
 
Last edited:
CZroe

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
24,195
857
126
MagnusTheBrewer said:
No wonder the 'youts' have never heard it, it stems from analog watches and clocks.
Click to expand...

As I've said, it stems from it but it's still BACKWARDS compared to every other use of "of" including in the context of time ("3 o' clock" means 3 hours of the clock have elapsed, not that 3 hours of the clock remain).
 
D

DCal430

Diamond Member
Feb 12, 2011
6,020
9
81
This is definitely not the dominate way to tell time in the U.S. I am from California and have been through out Northern and Southern California, and no one say time like this. Also been to Florida and no one there says time like this either. This most be some backwards regional thing.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom