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pdonis on May 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Siri, What Time Is It in London?

Transliterating this into the Latin alphabet is fun since it gives "p.m." for before noon.

jason0597 on May 22, 2020 [–]

Indeed! My mother once mistakenly put an alarm for 6π.μ. thinking it was 6p.m., and suddenly at 6am in the morning it was blasting off for no reason.

That's what living for so many years in another country does to your native tongue

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