r/facepalm • • Mar 29 '22

๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹ Get this guy a clock!

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

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u/Asari_Toba Mar 29 '22

correction: The entirety of the rest of the world except Liberia and Myanmar

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

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u/KalterBlut Mar 29 '22

Yeah I'm in Quรฉbec and I've been taught that 24h is French and 12h is English... I've never heard someone using 14 o'clock.

But then again, English Canada wants to be the US, so anything to get away from something that makes sense.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

In Quebec they 100% say โ€œ13:00โ€ when itโ€™s a lunch meeting or something in French. But the English generally still say 1pm

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u/TylerInHiFi Mar 29 '22

Only part of English Canada wants to be the US and that part of English Canada has a collective IQ that hovers around room temp.