LL-L "History" 2009.07.06 (02) [EN]

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From: Jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2009.07.05 (02) [EN]

 Beste Marcus,

you are so right when you show up that:

In official uses (and by more standardsy speakers) the 24-hour system is
used. But in colloquial speech we traditionally use the 12-hour system. In
Low Saxon for example you always say "Klock fiev" and never "Klock
sömteihn". It's not even possible to use the 24 hour system or any
minute-exact times without resorting to the Standard German system. So the
use of the 12-hour system in this case is easy to explain.

And even in Standard German I'd always prefer the old 12-hour-system! But
not with the suffix "a.m./p.m.".
As you showed up this could be a special mannerism by the author of the
quoted sentence - but he never did use it in his earlier textes, in begin
dating from ca. A.D. 1890.

Thanks!

Allerbest!

Jonny Meibohm

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