Misunderstanding between the US and the UK l stereotype Tik Tok reaction (Feat. Chewkz)
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Christina and Hannah had so much fun time watching Chewkz's tiktok about culture difference between the US and UK. We hope you have enjoyed our video today. Don't forget to follow our new instagram account for upcomings, as well as our casts'!
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"What is the biggest cultural difference between US and UK" Well...Christina is right though , there's a lot 🤣🇺🇲🇬🇧
I'd say just about everything is different. The only thing that's similar is the way we measure time (HH:mm:ss) and that we speak the same language.
This dude of TikTok is really a genius about english , funny as well
@Janna Is Chewkz. It's also in the video title.
@Janna Is no problem
maybe because his british? lmao
Another difference is about the Sports : like in US 🇺🇲 is more Basketball , Baseball and of course the Super Bowl event , in UK 🇬🇧 is more football , Premier League , FA Cup and of course the Uefa Champions League , the tournement between the best football teams in Europe , thank you ladies , Christina and Hana 💙❤
You forgot to mention the differences of Football between US🇺🇸🏈and UK🇬🇧⚽.
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 he already mention it (Super Bowl) haha, but he does'nt want to mention football hahahaha, no offense henri 😁
US - Easy: when you play the ball with your hands, it's football Eu - No,I that's handball UK - Neither, it's Rugby!
The thing you play with hands are never Football!!!
Are there literally no other popular sports in Europe other than European football, such as rugby, basketball or hockey? What about cricket in the UK? As you said, in the U.S., there is a pretty wide variety: American football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer (football) and NASCAR fits somewhere in there. That is probably the order in descending popularity, although NASCAR might be in the middle there.
@5:45 - A Swede use "military date" (YYYY-MM-DD) but it wasn't that hard moving to Australia just to "turn the date" around to DD/MM/YYYY. US dates still confuse me at times though... _I work with computers and when I moved here in 2002 I was asked to help a company create a web interface for a database they had to keep track of jobs, like a ticketing system. The problem was that their webpage was hosted in California, USA. Queensland, Australia don't use daylight savings time but California do (PST/PDT). So in my script I had to convert the timestamp from California time to Queensland time... First check what date it was to determine whether it was daylight savings time or not in California. Based on that I had to add 17h or 18h due to the time zone difference taking daylight savings time in consideration. And then finally convert the date format from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY._
The date difference really kills me especially since I work for a multinational company dealing with people from different countries. For written dates I always go by YYYY-MM-DD to avoid any confusion. In spoken language there is no such confusion.
In Canada, Celsius is uses for outdoor and indoor temperatures. Fahrenheit is used for cooking.
Really? 😱
Wow
That’s just ridiculous
@@adog5408 Yeah, I feel like it would make more sense the other way around even. So if you used Celsius for cooking and Fahrenheit for the weather
No, what I meant is that you just use one
I can't believe I'm finding this today. I literally made this joke yesterday. I was talking to my friend and I said I wanted to be collected at "half five". And then I was like "It's kind of funny the way we say 'half five'. Imagine if you were talking to an American friend and they were like 'half five? Oh, you mean 2:30, because 2.5 is half of five?'" and I made a whole thing out of it, where you could take it even further and call that "half two" and then the American would think you mean 1pm.
Yo Diana u British, that's shocked fam😮
Can we give props to that dude for getting up prior to 5am to drive his friend to the airport - that's a real friend there!
Dude didn’t even question it. He was just like “5am? Ok, I’ll be there”
If you want to be even more confused, bring a Swede 😂 ! When we say "half ten" we mean a half hour BEFORE ten, 9.30 . Morning or night, you figure it out from the situation.
In Germany its the same
same in Denmark
I'm realising that is weirdly common -- I heard it first about Germany. (I'm a Brit so you know where I'm coming from with this!)
Same in Indonesia, it's quite common
Same in Russia But it has more logic than 10:30 imho
The Levels of Farenheit thought process. Anything Negative: Screw this I'm staying home you'd have to be nuts to go out. 01-10: Screw this still staying home where it's warm. 10 to 20: Okay I'll go out if I have too, but I must remember to dry my hair after showering or it'll turn to ice and wear every warm thing I have. 20 to 30: I better layer up. 30 to 40: I better get the winter jacket out. 40 to 50: I can get away with my light jacket if I wear a warm shirt. 50 to 60: Might want to wear my light jacket today. 60 to 70: Now this is nice. 70 to 80: A little hot, but still nice especially when the breeze hits you and I might want to wear shorts. 80 to 90: Okay it's hot now, definitely shorts weather. 90 to 100: This is what Hell is like. Over 100: Screw this staying home and turning the AC up.
I use Celsius but I'm quite different than most people. I'm fine with a light jacket for -10 to 5 degrees, and anything higher than that, I would have to just wear a t-shirt. I already feel like it's hell when it reaches 15 degrees. Heat waves are like the worst time in my life.
@@ShizuruNakatsuyeah it's totally depends on each person how they feel no matter if it's Celsius or Fahrenheit. So the main comment doesn't make any sense at all
I was born in Canada, studied in the UK and spent the last 25 years working in Switzerland. When I lived in the UK I always understood that half 10 was 10:30 but I found it interesting moving to Switzerland half 10 here or Halb Zehn would be 9:30. The argument the Swiss make is that it is half of the 10th hour of the day, which makes more sense to me when you think of the expression literally.
Indeed, here in the Netherlands 1/2 ten could be 09:30 OR 21:30, so you might want to say explicit: 1/2 10 in the morning (or evening)
Half ten = half PAST ten. Therefore 10:30 am or pm.
@@joshuddin897 perhaps that is the origin but literally half 10 means half 10. It is like the Americans calling caffe latte latte. Latte is literally milk not milk coffee. Or gas for gasoline which is a liquid and not a gas. English is funny that way making abbreviations which literally mean something different from what they intend.
@@GeoffreyEngelbrecht you make excellent point(s).
@@joshuddin897 Judging by the comments, half ten means 9:30 in the vast majority of countries. Without any indication of it being "half to" or "half past", the most literal meaning of the expression implies that it's half (to) the hour.
If you find yourself in an international situation, particularly with Americans and/or some East Asian people, you can always add the year at the brginning of the date and use YYYY/MM/DD format to avoid confusions
Or just spell out the month lol
Yes. That is the best
@@StrawberryNinjaNibbles Months don't have the same name everywhere
@@FranciscoJxL they do
True, this is probably the system everyone should switch to and start using
While in Indonesia, most of us will think that "half ten" means 9.30, because it's already "a half hour" and it took a half more to make it into ten
This. In countries I have lived so far, ”half ten” is 9:30 and thinking otherwise would get you in trouble 😁
same in dutch
I'm from the US and I thought 9:30 as well when he said half ten.
Same in German.
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In South Africa, we do say Qauter Past xx (10:15), Half past xx (10:30) and Qauter to xx(10:45). The 'quater to' part may be confusing, but it's just the amount of minutes left before the next hour. Like 10:31, it is 29 minutes to 11. Some people just say Past xx, which is just (xx:30).
When someone says Half 10, that’s a little confusing to me. In Australia, at least for me we say Half past 10.
The Aussie rock band AC/DC has a song called "Go Down" and Bon Scott sings "I'll be 'round to see you 'bout..about half past 10". I'm American, and I can definitely infer "half past 10" is an Aussie thing!
What do you mean half ten is 9:30 in Germany 😂😂😂😂
@Ana Seijas I would think half past 10 would be a half hour (or 30 minutes) after 10 (am or pm, not half hour before 10.
@@CarstenMoreno It's bizarre, but halb zehn is 9:30, halb neun is 8:30 etc. I guess that the reasoning is that it's halfway from the previous hour to the next hour. In UK English, half ten is short for half past ten.
@1:35 - So confusing... When I first moved to Australia, every time someone said like "half ten" I had to confirm, 10:30am? Because to a Swede "half ten" would be 9:30am (!), i.e. "halfway to 10" not "half past 10". And we don't use am/pm... we use morning/afternoon/evening/night... and "military time" (24h) if we write it.
Norwegian time: Half to the next hour, quarter to/past the hour, 1-14 (usually 5 or 10) minutes to/past the closest half hour. So 9:40 would be "10 past half 10".
The biggest shock for an Italian guy watching this video it's actually to see two people talking and having fun without making ANY gestures with their bodies and their hands!!! These two young ladies are so much composed while talking. 😅😅😅
Now think about the pain of the non native English speakers... It's so difficult and confusing Historically we Indians are more aligned to British English, but again due to IT, computers, softwares etc. we need to know American English too... If I write "cancelled", Microsoft office would show it as a wrong spelling, and suggest "canceled" All these years I knew it's alluminium Now just a few days ago I came to know it's wrong, and it should be alluminum. Then I Googled it and found alluminum is American 😥😡🧐
It's 'Aluminum'.
What Europeans don’t always get is it’s over 12 hours to get through Texas. Some states are the size of your country, so it makes more sense to have vehicles if your not in a city.
The ploblem is America’s urban planning sucks 1950 and above with the inner and outer cities suburbs being designed around automobile use which is one of the more expensive forms of transportation short for helicopters of course. Cars also add more expenses in non transportation based cost like using a much larger land footprint than what public transportation would use. Cars also hurt the poor by being a a expensive needed expense. Contrary to popular belief public transit is far cheaper than private automobiles.
I think we know Texas is big.
you don't travel across the state on a daily basis. You go to work, to the store and home. As mentioned here previously, US has bad urban planning.
@@puclopuclik4108 have you been to the United States? Also, as the United States and cities were building, the style of transportation was changing.
@stephengoodson9619 Have you been outside of the US? You'll never see those strictly residential areas anywhere but US. The rest of the world has walkable cities. I have school, store, doctors clinic, hairdresser, work, and fast food within 15 minutes of walk from my home. I don't have a car, because I don't need one. New York may be an exception, but most American cities have a strict distinction between residental and business areas. Public transport varies from country to country, and city to city. But US public syste is worse than in developing countries. I can tell you my mother never had a car, used public transport all her life. I don't have a car. The majority of my friends don't have a car. We just don't need them. I can get anywhere I need on foot or by public transport. Now tell me how many Americans outside of New York and Boston don't have a car.
I’ve never hear half past but I feel like I’d get it because we say quarter till or quarter after
5:20 before Google exists, I use to calculate Celsius Fahrenheit mentally, so, why change now? 🤣 🤣 🤣
I hear a lot of people say "a quarter past xx" in the USA, where xx is the hour. A quarter is a quarter of an hour, so 15 minutes. So a quarter past 10 is 10:15. Military time is easier and I prefer that.
for celsius to Fahrenheit times by 2 and add 30 to be about right eg 0 celsius *2+30 = 30 Fahrenheit which is about right
I like the way Christina smiles
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1:49 - I called my grandma at 3:00 when she said "quarter of 12" for the same reason.
2:26 I've heard "half past 10" used in the U.S.
That plant do be chillin in the background tho
I'm from a Latin American country and I live in the UK now. There are some things here that are the same as my country like the temperature measuring and the way dates are ordered, but there are others that are actually like the US in terms of pounds instead of kilograms and also the way the hour is read (generally, sometimes it resembles the way it's said in the UK). We use centimetres (inches are generally just used in construction and engineering) and kilometres to measure long distances, not miles (I think neither the US or the UK does). So I always need to google that lol.
Both the US and UK use miles. Moreso in the US.
Which country are you from? Latin America is huge
Wanna hear a joke? . . . . Reamur (°R) for temperature scale 🤣
I am used to celsius but fahrenheit is not that crazy to understand once you get it - the fahrenheit scale is kind of designed around humans anything below 50 = cold; 50 - 70 = meh; 70+ = warm fahrenheit sucks for learning scientific stuff though freezing point, boiling point, etc. all hard to remember cause the scale was not built around it like celsius is
Half ten would be 9:30 for me 😄 10:30 doesn't make sense to me at all, because it's the half of the hour to ten - so 9:30
Then it should be called "Half to Ten" lol checkmate bruv
In case you didn't know: water freezes on 0 Celsius and boils on 100
At , not on, )) freezes at 0 Celsius and boils at 100 ))
Well 4:21 also here in India I usually use motor cycle just to get a milk from near by shop lol
it’s funny because she said NY has good public transportation 😂😂😂😂
If someone said "Half Ten" in regards to Time, I'd be like "WTF are you talking about?" Seriously...I wouldn't have a clue how to interpret that. When I dictate a time, I say either the [hour] o'clock, quarter after [the hour], quarter till [the hour], or [the hour] thirty. Any other minute range I'd say something near the exact time but using the the previously mentioned nomenclature. For example, 10:20 would be "Ten Twenty," or "Twenty after Ten" and 10:40 would be "Twenty till Eleven." So times before the half jar would use [Minutes after the Hour] and times after the half hour would use [Minutes till the Next Hour].
Hannah you're really nice 🙂 but I just love Lauren and Christina together ❤️ XxXxX
As an American I've never heard "Half Ten", I would have been confused if that meant 9:30 or 10:30 :( That being said, definitely use quarter past/to/til or half-past all the time (for some reason no one I know uses half til, but we do say any number 30 or under til/to e.g. 20 til 10 = 9:40) Not sure if that is just a West Coast or North West thing though.
9:30 makes more sense. You made it halfway to 10 (looking at that hour)
We Americans sometimes say "Half past 10" though
Til? My African brain goes spinning. Til? Hearing this for the first time.
@@ekinematics it's basically an abbreviation of "until", don't think it actually counts as a real word, just a sloppy regional thing ;)
@@crazycoral42 I know. But I've never heard or used that for time before.
It's because the UK girl is young. I was born in the 80s and grew up with imperial measurements. In the middle of the 90s, the E.U. forced the UK to use metric system. So most British people 40+ know both systems
Thing about public transportation is that it's not fesible in every town and city in the US. UK is tiny compared to the American landmass and even in the UK, there are small towns and villages where you'd have to drive to get anywhere. I think these channels tend to suffer from city-dweller bias.
Dear World Friends, It would make these videos a lot better if you plug-in the audio from the actual video you’re showing. It seems like the audio we are hearing is whatever the room’s Mic happens to catch. Very bad quality in that sense.
The Date Order thing actually uses the same logic, but from a slightly different point of view. The UK system says that the smallest unit first, the Day, then the Month, then the Year, right? Well in the US, we think in terms of that there's only 12 months in the year, but between 28 and 31 days per month. So it makes as much logical sense to use the month first then the day, which would get you 10.24.2022 as today's date, rather than 24.10.2022. See how the American logic works with the 10.24.22 nomenclature? That first number never goes above 12, while the second number can go up to 31.
That literally makes no damn sense it is stupid and pointless to argue about it either side
In defense of the poster above, the manner in which dates are written in English can be arbitrary. You will see nearly every order, except for maybe YYYY, DD, MM scattered around the English speaking world. The "American" order or MM, DD, YYYY or YY is originally from England. That is how it started out with the first printed English works because that is how it was said originally, like, "My birthday was on March 10th, 1989" it was only much later that the Brits started to shift the phrasing to sound a bit more affected. "Yes, I came into the world on the 10th of March, back in the year of our lord, 1989." However, if you look at many British newspapers, you will still see the letterhead listing the print date as MM, DD, YYYY. American's simply did not change and continue to write the sequence the same way they say it in normal speech. In most ways, the "American" way of saying it is the unchanged or the older original version and others have changed the way they say or record things. Many hallmarks of British speaking have been added since 1776, like the intrusive R, some vowel shifts, and the like.
Yeah I'm an American, but I learned some German in high school. So if you told me half 10, I would be coming over at 9:30.
i say the exact minute like 34 past 9 lol,but im british
90 is super hot, 80 is pretty hot too.....as someone who has lived in the south most of their life......bless her heart.
Yyyeeeaaahhh eeerrrmmm... How the f**" is the UK Office even the slightest bit dark? Lol
Standard clock, anything on the left is too and on the right is past,
UK English I guess is popular here. We use celcius, day/month/year, kilogram instead of pound, drive on the left side. Walking, public transportation etc are very common. I can relate myself with the UK style.
Where is here?
It's India
Irish lad here same for us too
We use both kg and lbs lol
Our Public Transportation is quite reliable. 🇫🇷
American here... About 5 or 6 years ago I switched my dates to yyyy/mm/dd Mostly because if sorts best as cooker file names.
People in northern England usually say half ten, but people in southern England don’t.
Im in love with Christina she's way too beautiful
Me too, her eyes are so mysterious that anyone would fall in love with her!!!...❤️
We are being taught British english in school and I've never heard just "half ten". It's either "half past ten" (10:30) or "half to ten" (9:30).
Half past ten & half ten are often used in the UK. Half to ten never is.
Aside from "Fahrenheit" and "Celsius", does anyone know about "Kelvin" Temp. Scale?
The “Independence Day” in the USA, also called “The 4th of July”, occurs on July 4. Why the inconsistency? It’s confusing…
half ten is 9.30 for me because of germany time telling...
"Half Ten" is short for "Half _Past_ 10", there's also "Quarter _To"_ or "Quarter _Past"._
In Germany "halb 10" would be 9:30.
A pre digital watch way of saying 10:30 is half past ten.
6 of November 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Half ten for me would be 9.30. In swedish when we say "halv tio" (half ten) that's what we mean.
Why drive when you can walk? Well, "time is money" as we say in America. Most people don't have the time to walk wherever they want to go. Figure that it takes about 10 minutes to walk a mile, why do that when you can drive it in less than a minute? But the thing that Europeans in general don't understand about America is about travel is that America is quite large and spread out, therefore a "car culture" developed as early as the 1920s. When tge automobile was invented and started mass production by Henry Ford, people started to get the sense of freedom to go anywhere they wanted at any time they wanted, without having to walk it or wait for scheduled trains or busses that didn't go to the exact place you wanted to go. A car or truck could though. Americans like to go for a drive just to get out or just for the hell of it. Having bigger and wider roads helps as well. European standard road lane widths are 9 ft, while American lane widths are 12 ft, or even more depending on the type of road. This allows the vehicles to be wider and bigger overall. When I examine European vehicles, I notice there is very little gap between the driver and passenger seats. Looks like you're sitting on top of one another. In American made vehicles, there's at least an additional 6 inches between the two seats, if not more. In trucks, it's probably more, as most trucks have a pretty big storage compartment between the seats. I haven't measured it, but I think it's around 12 inches wide. But back to walking vs driving. Like your American friend said there, in most areas outside a few select cities, public transportation doesn't exist. Or if it does, it's something of a last resort, as they're run down. And I'm talking about busses mostly. No one takes the bus unless they absolutely have to. If anything, most people would take a Taxi or call an Uber now. And still those are cars. And then in small towns, you almost have to have a car. As even having Ubers is not guaranteed. And small b towns in America are as big as cities in Eastern Europe. I see all these settlements shown in Ukraine, and in America, those would barely qualify as neighborhoods in some cases.
hahahah these videos from Chewkz are the best ones! You and your squad always doing a great job, Christina. Congrats! X
im european but half ten is british way and its absolutely doesnt make sense :D when we say half ten its 9:30 bcs thats half an hour before 10.. ten and a half would make sense :D
0:38 nice subtitles
in Germany， half ten is 9:30😂
To those Americans you say the month should be first, Me : Happy fckng 4th of July!!!!
Well the public transportation isnt there...cuz the country is HUGE compared to UK. Also -1 celsius is not super cold lol thats not even winter cold.
we usually say half past 10, not half 10
funny thing if you say half 10 in germany it would be 9:30 or quarter 10 would be 9:15 if you translate it literally
You have no idea about the temperature in India. I live in the center part of India and the maximum temperature has gone up to 113 degree Fahrenheit which is 45 degree Celsius.
Hahahaha these tiktok videos had me rolling 😆 was happy to watch more videos of Chewkz! -Christina 🇺🇸
Ahaha very intersting
One of the many things I don’t understand about Europeans measurement is the kilometers and meters for example what is the closest grocery store the closest grocery store is 5 kilometers from you as a American I don’t know how many ( miles ) is that. First of all why are you saying kilometers instead of miles, it will make more sense to say the closest grocery store from you is 3.107 miles instead of saying the closest grocery store from you is 5 kilometers away. So 5 kilometers is 3.107 miles. Another example is meters how big is your apartment? My apartment is 50 meters , so how much is that in square foot? 538.196 square foot so your apartment is 538.196 square foot as a American I be a little bit confused.
Another great video 🙂😘❤🇺🇲
@@cartier2312 it depends if you were in school before 80s then they used the old system, if after 80s then it’s metrics system taught in schools. U.K. is officially metric for things expected for cars & people hight & weight & we use stone for weights last time I check before pandemic I was 14 stone in February 2018. I’m 5.4 is my hight if people want to convert it I let them do it but & U.K. beer pints are in old system but if you’re walking it’s in metric that’s just the U.K. for you. Government got lazy so basically everything above old system but anything else in metric. Rest of the world does wish USA would go metric & im British & I want U.K. to finish going metric. People I usually go with we don’t say it In any system we just say it’s 5 minutes walk or 10 minute walk or it’s up the road or it’s down the road. Im being U.K. specific, other European countries are entirely metrics.
@@cartier2312 " First of all why are you saying kilometers instead of miles ? " LOL The answer for you question is simple, cause the world revolves around the sun and not the USA. Most people don't even know what is a mile, so how do you expect them to tell you the distance using something they don't even know ? Same goes for foot/feet, fahrenheit, pounds etc. For example, I have no idea how long is a foot, a mile or an inch. Than you're the ones that should adapt to the metric system and not the other way around, cause only the US still use the imperial system nowadays.
Even the British person says that using the British Gravitational system makes no sense. 8:07
In norway half 10 is half hour to/before 10. So 9:30😁. So if a english tell me to meet half 10 i would come 1 hour early 😎🇧🇻
sorry ladies but 01:27 the tongue saying one thing and the eyes completely another. And I remembered someone saying that the eyes never lie chico.
Hmmm, just to be more confusing, instead of saying half past 10, I'd say half till 11 or instead of quarter till 11, I'd say three quarters past 10.....btw, I served in the military, USAF, so I'm used to the day/month/year set up....
Can anyone explain me the 'date' thing ?🙁 I didn't understand 😭
Half ten means 9:30 in The Netherlands.
I waited for BoAhhWaWaawa...
Date and time in Sweden. year-month-date.....hour-minute-second.....For time we use 24 hour. In the middle of the night it starts with 1 and mid day it's 11-12-13-14 and so on until late evening 23-24 and then 1 again.
Never heated that term my guess was 9:30
Here in estonia half ten would mean 9:30
Half ten means 9:30 in Germany
US and UK: Confusing Month and Date Chinese: 😶
Ahh.. The girl from the US🇺🇲 really got my attention😩😩
1:16 well yes, if you've never used Fahrenheit than of course its not going to make any sense to you. Its the same for Celsius though. Whenever I see something in Celsius I have to sit there doing the calculation of multiplying it by 1.8 and then adding 32 to get a sense of what the weather must be like at that Celsius degree. It doesn't just automatically make sense to me either, as if its some kind of biological instinct that Fahrenheit users just ignore lol I also don't think having freezing at 0 and boiling at 100 necessarily provides any real advantage to the system. In fact, if you live in a place where it regularly goes below freezing in temperature, I'd argue starting at a number like 32 as it does with Fahrenheit makes more sense. Because then you don't have to dip into negative numbers as often. 2:49 I've heard things like "half past" "quarter to" in the US a lot too with time. I've just never heard someone say "half ten" or "half 8", that would sound very weird and someone would probably have to ask you do you mean "half past ten?". I doubt anyone would just assume 5 am though like they do in the skit for comedy without asking for clarification first lol.
I would have thought half ten is 9.30 😅
They didn't go into units for volume, weight and distance/weight because both would sound stupid!
How do they bring the most American or British person 😂😂😂
with the time im with the us on this its so easy to say 10.30 or its 1.30 or its 5.56
The UK and US metric systsems just doesn"t make sense. Celsius, kilograms, liter are pretty easy metrics.And the dates, the yyyy/mm/dd is the best.
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half 10 would be 9:30 to me. Cause its half the hour to 10
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So by their 'half ten is 10:30' logic, 50 minus 50% is 75, right? Yes, I grew up with that system, but the more I think about it, it doesn't make any sense 😐
Half ten? Wouldn't that be 9:30 rather than 10:30? Like half of ten(th hour), which is less than the full hour rather than more. In my native language, Finnish, we say "puoli kymmenen" (literally half ten) and it is known as 9:30 (or 21:30)
Same in Indonesia 😂 there is alternative, if you want to say 9:30 just say nine over thirty minutes just change the order word
nobody knows why USA use Fahrenheit, inches. Because the rest of the world use Celsius and centimeters. (same thing about dates, and distances )
In EU half ten means 9:30