Local habits

Originally Posted by Bigblah

I'm touring some Chinese cities right now, and the inhabitants of Beijing and Yulin (and probably every other Chinese city) love to spit. They spit everywhere -- sidewalks, polished marble floors, even inside elevators. Or maybe they spotted my silver Nike cap and had to get rid of the bile that spontaneously formed in their mouths.

I've noticed Chinese people tend to do that on my school's campus as well. There also seems to be a lot more Asian smokers than any other group.

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However, I do recall traveling around the New England area, and people have this habit of saying "of" when telling the time to indicate the proximity to the next hour. For example, "twenty of five" means it's 4:40. That's a bit odd to me. =/

You mean everybody doesn't do this?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I use of, to, past, after, and 'til. Am I just really weird with how I describe the time?

There's nowhere I can't reach.