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To make it slightly more ambiguous you could say "quarter till", but I suppose to know that you'd have to know basically know that the next hour is 5 in your ex
by throwaway7645 9y ago
To make it slightly more ambiguous you could say "quarter till", but I suppose to know that you'd have to know basically know that the next hour is 5 in your example, although a scenario could exist where you know how much time till the next hour but not what the current time is.
- delinka 9y agoTo me, "quarter 'til" assumes the listener knows the next hour, not that the speaker doesn't know the next hour.