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What Watch do You Wear?

February 18th, 2016, 10:01 pm

Good that I have an alibi!Very nice watch, btw. You just need to be cautious not to mistake it with one of those overpriced tacky Hublots from a distance.
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 29th, 2020, 12:42 am

 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 29th, 2020, 1:26 am

I did wear a Casio watch through much of the 80’s, but have not worn a watch for something like 15 years. Like, why would you?
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 29th, 2020, 3:25 pm

I don't have a watch, but 3 cuckoo clocks, 2 of which in my work room and 1 in the dining room.

Time is a 17th century Puritan invention.

Contrary to popular belief (blame Harry Lime) cuckoo clocks come from Titisee.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=exu7p5LA67w

BTW it's "Which watch..."
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 29th, 2020, 5:05 pm

BTW it's "Which watch..."
What watch? ... Ten watch  :D
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 29th, 2020, 6:16 pm

I don't have a watch, but 3 cuckoo clocks, 2 of which in my work room and 1 in the dining room.

Time is a 17th century Puritan invention.

Contrary to popular belief (blame Harry Lime) cuckoo clocks come from Titisee.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=exu7p5LA67w

BTW it's "Which watch..."
Hence their name: Black Forest clocks!

Hva er klokken? Klokken er ti?

BTW, klokka eller klokken? :-)
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 29th, 2020, 8:16 pm

BTW it's "Which watch..."
What watch? ... Ten watch  :D
LOL^2

ten watch .. way beyond bed time.
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 29th, 2020, 10:06 pm

I don't have a watch, but 3 cuckoo clocks, 2 of which in my work room and 1 in the dining room.

Time is a 17th century Puritan invention.

Contrary to popular belief (blame Harry Lime) cuckoo clocks come from Titisee.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=exu7p5LA67w

BTW it's "Which watch..."
Hence their name: Black Forest clocks!

Hva er klokken? Klokken er ti?

BTW, klokka eller klokken? :-)

Excellent question! So it turns out that in Norwegian, a large number of nouns can be either masculine or feminine (but, oddly, not neuter). At least in the greater Oslo area, the use of the masculine (klokken) would tend to connote a higher degree of formality and perhaps also be a class marker. Where I grew up (definitely working class and farming roots), we would say klokka, senga, boka, stua, ... But in the tonier parts of Oslo V, it would be klokken, sengen, boken, stuen, ...
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 30th, 2020, 3:17 pm

Time to get rid of that GMT nonsense

BST != GMT
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 30th, 2020, 3:30 pm

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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 30th, 2020, 5:28 pm

I buy cheap drugstore watches for the few times when I need a watch -- like a concert with set times where I don't want to carry a phone. I had one old reliable. Early on, half the band fell off, so then I would carry my 'watch fragment' in a pocket. That was fine because I don't like to wear watches anyway. Eventually, I lost it and had to buy a new cheapo one.
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 30th, 2020, 5:40 pm

only the best, snake skin leather (fresh) wrist band watch, or just watch or listen to my Stuguklokke

the new atomic clocks delicious 

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from http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/csac/
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 30th, 2020, 10:37 pm

I don't have a watch, but 3 cuckoo clocks, 2 of which in my work room and 1 in the dining room.

Time is a 17th century Puritan invention.

Contrary to popular belief (blame Harry Lime) cuckoo clocks come from Titisee.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=exu7p5LA67w

BTW it's "Which watch..."
Hence their name: Black Forest clocks!

Hva er klokken? Klokken er ti?

BTW, klokka eller klokken? :-)

Excellent question! So it turns out that in Norwegian, a large number of nouns can be either masculine or feminine (but, oddly, not neuter). At least in the greater Oslo area, the use of the masculine (klokken) would tend to connote a higher degree of formality and perhaps also be a class marker. Where I grew up (definitely working class and farming roots), we would say klokka, senga, boka, stua, ... But in the tonier parts of Oslo V, it would be klokken, sengen, boken, stuen, ...
Thanks for the insight. Is dropping the feminine gender a result of a language reform or does it happen spontaneously?
I'm used to three genders in Ukrainian and Polish, and the lack thereof in English has sometimes made the communication a bit cumbersome and unclear to me (nouns, pronouns and adjectives' gender helps to separate different topics in the conversation or anticipate the following message).


Watches - the dive and fly ones are the most important.
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 30th, 2020, 10:40 pm

only the best, snake skin leather (fresh) wrist band watch, or just watch or listen to my Stuguklokke

the new atomic clocks delicious 

Screen Shot 2020-07-30 at 11.19.25 PM.png
from http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/csac/
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Bon appetit!
 
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Re: What Watch do You Wear?

July 30th, 2020, 11:33 pm


Hence their name: Black Forest clocks!

Hva er klokken? Klokken er ti?

BTW, klokka eller klokken? :-)

Excellent question! So it turns out that in Norwegian, a large number of nouns can be either masculine or feminine (but, oddly, not neuter). At least in the greater Oslo area, the use of the masculine (klokken) would tend to connote a higher degree of formality and perhaps also be a class marker. Where I grew up (definitely working class and farming roots), we would say klokka, senga, boka, stua, ... But in the tonier parts of Oslo V, it would be klokken, sengen, boken, stuen, ...
Thanks for the insight. Is dropping the feminine gender a result of a language reform or does it happen spontaneously?
I'm used to three genders in Ukrainian and Polish, and the lack thereof in English has sometimes made the communication a bit cumbersome and unclear to me (nouns, pronouns and adjectives' gender helps to separate different topics in the conversation or anticipate the following message).


Watches - the dive and fly ones are the most important.
So, I didn’t actually know this, but it turns out to be a Danish thing. Norway was under Danish rule from about 1400 to 1814, which is when the written language was largely formalized. Danish only has two genders: common and neuter. Not shockingly, the upper classes in the capital picked up more of the colonial influence than the farmers scattered about the country.