I like how in German the literal translation of how you'd say the time right now is "Seven ten clocks seven and four ten minutes"
@shel as opposed to English, where it's seven ten four ten seven? :D
@theoutrider we don't says "There's sixteen clocks" though
@shel "o'clock" endlessly amused child me when I first learned English
@theoutrider o'clock is silly but it's short for "on the clock" whereas in German it's like... A quantity of clocks... Help it's one and twenty clocks I can't hold all these clocks in my arms
@shel it's "Uhr" though, not "Uhren", nowhere does it actually suggest multiple clocks (but rather "five clock" which is Just Nonsense)
@shel Consistency! [number >1] clockS, except when you're talking about time, in which case grammar no longer applies
@shel some kind of uncertainty principle parallel joke there
@theoutrider I think this is the thing where my German teacher was from Trier and taught us to say things the weird way Trierans do? He said it was "the German hick accent" cuz in class when someone said "So you're just saying five clocks?" He said "Yup."
But he also outright trolled us sometimes like when he taught us to say "Kongratulieren dir an deinem Geburtstag"
@shel @theoutrider "What watch?"
"Ten watch!"
"Such much?"