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It's inefficient is what I'm suggesting.
It is a one syllable difference, at most. Fif-teen versus Quar-ter-Past. Or Thir-ty versus Half-past. And for-ty-five versus quar-ter-till.
But it is also about precision. If I say "Let's meet up at 4:45" that implies a lot more specificity than "let's meet at quarter to five". The firmer is an exact time people should meet at and the latter is "around that time".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeopkvAP-ag goes into the difference between analog and digital time and what that means with thought processes. But a lot of it boils down to thinking in terms of "parts of a whole" versus "specific times".
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I'm curious why it got the name digital time.
Because it is expressed as digits (numbers)
it's not like people generally pronounce it fully anyways, it'll come out as "qua'tr" or "quartah" depending on dialect
All of which is still two syllables?
The most inefficient part of human brain is having to consciously process things. So going with whatever patterns you're used to is always going to be faster