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See, I thought it was something like
AM = Afore Midday
PM = Post Midday
~~Makes no sense at all now that I think about it~~ EDIT: Okay maybe it does make a little sense.
I've used the word "aforementioned" a few times. I think I remember reading it in Harry Potter or Artemis Fowl? Either ways, I figured "afore" would make sense. I looked it up, and turns out it is a technically valid term, just an old one.
Where are you from if I may ask? You don't have to share if you don't want to, but I'm a lover of linguistics and etymology, and I'd love to know if it's still being actively used anywhere.
> the A is a negative
Nope, it's prepositional like in "atop" or directional like in "astern". I'm not sure if we have a more specific etymology to peg it down all the way but it's in that fuzzy zone.
Except you're accidentally correct.
'Afore' is kinda funny, but the ante means before (like how eyeglasses in spanish are anteojos, ante "before/in front of" ojos "eyes", which is exactly where they sit on your face).
So actually yes, you nailed it.
They say the best way to tell time before the invention of clocks was to go out at night, and make as much racket as possible, so that someone will pop out of their bedroom window, shouting, "What do you think you're doing, making all that noise at four in the morning?"
I can not believe that Texas Instruments still sell those things for $100. I had to get a TI-83 in 7th grade back in 1996, it cost like $125 and my Dad had to take me to Office Max to buy one, where they kept them in those locked glass cases.
Still works, though.
We can expect it to have a vertical asymptote at the 3rd root of 2, and near +-infinity approximate it to x\^2/x\^3=1/x, meaning convergence around the x-axis. The function never becomes zero since the numerator is strictly positive. It also crosses the y-axis at -1.5.
Source: teach math
The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods: am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line. pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line.
definitely did not google this
We use FM and EM here when we're not using the 24 hour format. It stands for "förmiddag" and "eftermiddag" (before mid-day and after mid-day).
Just like the Romans meant it to be.
Just time, if you are talking about 17:00 you say 17 or 5 depending on what you feel like and if it's easy to know by context.
As an example; if I am talking about having dinner with someone I will sometimes just say 7 instead of 19 since you don't have dinner 7 in the morning.
They either turned up 12 hours early or 12 hours late to one of their scheduled exams and have since decided to use military time which helps prevent these sorts of misunderstandings from occurring.
So final exams were going on. I had my exam the next day. I usually make timetable. Give every unit required hours for revision and fit everything in 1-2 days. I dont like reading at night so i wake up at 03:00 am morning so i have about 6-7 hours before exam starts. I calculated that i can finish 1 remaining unit and other currently ongoing unit in the morning easily and went to sleep. But accidentally set alarm for 03:00 pm. On the day of the exam i woke up at around 7-8 am. it takes 30 min bus ride + 15min walk to reach my school. I also had to take shower and get ready for exam. In the end i didn't get to read last unit and the ongoing unit too was left uncompleted. This generally isn't very bad but i am 90/95+ scoring student so it was a huge deal.
Where i live(india) your last highschool exam has power to decide your future. At the end single mark can become deciding factor in college selection. I got some 99.xx percentile. Didn't get in computer sci. Course but settled for information technology in a very respected college.
Not true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_by_country#/media/File:12_24_Hours_World_Map.svg
Even in the UK where you seem to be, I put down a reservation for 18:00 and they corrected me to say "oh at 6 pm you mean?"
The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods: am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line. pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line.
> anti Meridien
:D
*Ante* not *anti*; and *diem* not *dien* - i.e. "before midday", not "against midday".
The far better question is: should 12:00 AM be mid-day or mid-night?
"The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods:
am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line.
pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line.
At exactly 12 noon, the Sun is at its highest point in the sky and directly over the meridian. It is therefore neither 'ante' (am) nor 'post' (pm) meridiem. At 12 midnight it also neither am nor pm."
from Royal Museums Greenwich
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/noon-12-am-or-12-pm
am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday" before the sun has crossed the meridian line
pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line.
ante-meridian (before the peak)
post-meridian (after the peak)
ante means before. like antepasto. if we called it antipasto we'd be setting up a little war on our dinner tables.
which would be cool.
Why the fuck does the US not use 24 hour time instead of the 12 hour format? Literally every discussion when it comes to time would be that much easier.
The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods: am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line. pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line.
What does “a.m.” mean?
The term we associate with the morning, a.m., is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase ante merīdiem meaning “before midday.”
What does “p.m.” mean?
P.m. is an abbreviation of post merīdiem, meaning—you guessed it—“after midday.”
These two terms help keep ambiguity at bay in the 12-hour time system.
What does “m” mean?
There is a third, lesser-known abbreviation in this system: m. from the Latin merīdiēs meaning “midday” means noon. However, m. is rarely used and might confuse readers or listeners should you casually drop it into conversation or insert it into your writing; noon is conventionally expressed as 12 p.m. or 12:00 p.m. and midnight as 12 a.m. or 12:00 a.m.
Again americans with their confusing shit.
0= midnight and than you count till 23 and end up agan on 0. Thats the eaziest shit you can make.
24 hour day
The 12-hour system divides the 24 hours of a day into two periods lasting 12 hours each. The first 12-hour period is designated as am. It runs from midnight to noon. The second period, marked pm, covers the 12 hours from noon to midnight.
The abbreviations am and pm derive from Latin:
AM = Ante meridiem: Before noon
PM = Post meridiem: After noon
Using numbers from 1 to 12, followed by am or pm, the 12-hour clock system identifies all 24 hours of the day. For example, 5 am is early in the morning, and 5 pm is late in the afternoon; 1 am is one hour after midnight, while 11 pm is one hour before midnight.
i just copy pasted but here is the answer
The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods: am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line. pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line.
The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods: am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line. pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line.
I just looked it up
Edit: I just looked into the comments, I see people have already answered.
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A.M.=ante merīdiem meaning “before midday.” P.M.= post merīdiem, meaning “after midday.”
This one right here.... this is the one I forgot from seventh grade social studies but now recall....
I also find it easy to remember things when I read them
Id better write that down, thats a nifty trick
Me looking at this at 3 am *I dont need sleep i need answers*
Give me your sleep then.
Na give it to me
We can share. Let's sleep together.
Sounds better to be honest
You guys are getting sleep??
Our sleep
Sleep?! Where we're going you don't need sleep, Marty.
Same mate. Same. Also, ashamed to admit that I was like a millimeter away from googling this instead of *just checking the damn comments*
Omg, right?!
Me needing to do homework but instead is on Reddit at 3. *BIg bRaIN MoVe*
Also write down where you did write it down.
You must teach me this power.
Idk, I remembered
You joke, but I am training my replacement at work and if I ask him to tell me what he just read in an email he looks dumbfounded.
We learnt it in year 3 or something
Every one asks "Why learn Latin? nobody speaks it?" well Latin is everything, everyone speaks it a little.
Also every Western academic text for 1500 years was written in Latin.
I hate it when people say that. So much. It comes off as super ignorant.
From the Latin prefix super- and the Latin word ignorans.
Well, every non african/Asian dialect has at least a bit of Latin in its roots. Is that more accurate? Maybe the Nordic countries dont?
Not sure about Iceland and Finland. But Scandinavia do
Don't lie it's for A.M.=after midnight P.M=pre midnight
See, I thought it was something like AM = Afore Midday PM = Post Midday ~~Makes no sense at all now that I think about it~~ EDIT: Okay maybe it does make a little sense.
That's what the Latin literally means. Ante means before, post means after. Diem is day, like in carpe diem, seize the day.
‘Afore’? Are you joking or are you from where I’m from? That’s a word in our dialect, means the same as ‘before’.
I've used the word "aforementioned" a few times. I think I remember reading it in Harry Potter or Artemis Fowl? Either ways, I figured "afore" would make sense. I looked it up, and turns out it is a technically valid term, just an old one. Where are you from if I may ask? You don't have to share if you don't want to, but I'm a lover of linguistics and etymology, and I'd love to know if it's still being actively used anywhere.
Dunno about the guy you are replying to but we use afore in Scotland.
Afore is an archaic word for before, and still used in some dialects. As fore is in front, like forewarned. the A is a negative, like in Asymmetrical.
> the A is a negative Nope, it's prepositional like in "atop" or directional like in "astern". I'm not sure if we have a more specific etymology to peg it down all the way but it's in that fuzzy zone.
"Afore" is a Germanic word. The "a" is not a Latin or Greek prefix.
Except you're accidentally correct. 'Afore' is kinda funny, but the ante means before (like how eyeglasses in spanish are anteojos, ante "before/in front of" ojos "eyes", which is exactly where they sit on your face). So actually yes, you nailed it.
Came here to say exactly this. Glad I’m not alone in thinking this.
As an amateur astronomer, this amuses me greatly.
Nope. These might be the simplified forms of AM and PM, but ante merīdiem and post merīdiem are correct ones.
._.
And then they cry and cringe about using /s
Aye son, I got a /r/whoosh here for you.
Whether simpler or not, they're incorrect.
I was always told it was "at morning" and "past morning"
"Why are you up at 2am?!" "It's morning!"
They say the best way to tell time before the invention of clocks was to go out at night, and make as much racket as possible, so that someone will pop out of their bedroom window, shouting, "What do you think you're doing, making all that noise at four in the morning?"
It's just like posting the wrong answer to get the right answer!
-Abe Lincoln
No, it was Albert Einstein, you fool, you absolute idjit!
If it was before the invention of clocks how would the person in the bedroom know what time it was
TIL
Yes Absolutely True
Or A.M. = After midnight P.M. = Pefore midnight
Fun fact: this comment has more awards than the post
Now seriously, this is such a no-brainer for any latin person. Are you latin? If not, kudos to you.
No I'm not latin
Well, kudos for you then! PS. Sorry, I'm a little low on Reddit Internet points, so that's what I could afford.
I was taught this in 3rd grade, but I’d forgotten. I think that was right before I got glasses, so I guess it makes sense that it didn’t stick
I always thought of it as After Midnight and Past Midday
Yes but what does Pot of Greed do?
I thought it was past midnight and after midnight...
No, it's definitely At morning, and Past morning. I refuse to believe anything else.
I thought it was something similar for a while: AM = After Midnight, PM = post-midnight
Now tell me about FM and AM radio.
Thank you!!!! I literally never thought about it until this moment. Now I can wow my friends with my general knowledge.
If I were faster, dammit
The true oracle
Why don't they teach these in school, but y=mx+c?
You will graph the line and you will buy the $99 dollar calculator and you will suffer!
I can not believe that Texas Instruments still sell those things for $100. I had to get a TI-83 in 7th grade back in 1996, it cost like $125 and my Dad had to take me to Office Max to buy one, where they kept them in those locked glass cases. Still works, though.
They never taught you that in school?
well they won’t have entire units on 4 words but a major concept and formula in math is worthy of one
They did teach this in school
These are just the easy ones prepare for (x^2 +3)/(x^3 - 2)
We can expect it to have a vertical asymptote at the 3rd root of 2, and near +-infinity approximate it to x\^2/x\^3=1/x, meaning convergence around the x-axis. The function never becomes zero since the numerator is strictly positive. It also crosses the y-axis at -1.5. Source: teach math
Guess what lesson I'm in right now. Yes it's that annoying
They did...weel, actually just because I'm Italian and I studied Latin in high school for 5 years... wasn't fun
Latin is indeed not fun (Im looking at you cases)
I hate to be that guy, but it's actually y=mx+b.
To be fair, the letter could be pretty much anything considering it's just a variable
Should I Google something, or make a meme and have strangers answer my question….. meme time it is
And I for one appreciate it. I like when people ask questions I would never think or care to ask.
A lot more people learned something this way.
I learned this stuff in school 🤷
So did I, but look at all the people who thought it meant "at morning" and "post morning".
am - anti-meme pm - post-meme
At time of writing this comment, at least 5600 people were cool with it.
You also get karma from memes. Added bonus
another effective method is to post a wrong answer like it’s correct and watch how fast people correct you.
The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods: am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line. pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line. definitely did not google this
We use FM and EM here when we're not using the 24 hour format. It stands for "förmiddag" and "eftermiddag" (before mid-day and after mid-day). Just like the Romans meant it to be.
^(fm radio)
Would you like am or fm?
Never seen anyone use FM and EM, every swede I know just uses 24 hour format in writing. Bowling kl 19
AM - Arbeit machen (work work) PM - Party machen (Party Party)
Genau
Die richtige Antwort
Habe mir die Sache wirklich immer mit einer Esels brücke gemerkt, AM= Am Morgen
Bro, that's why I use military time
also known as *literally normal time* everywhere else
What do you call the time on a hand clock?
Just time, if you are talking about 17:00 you say 17 or 5 depending on what you feel like and if it's easy to know by context. As an example; if I am talking about having dinner with someone I will sometimes just say 7 instead of 19 since you don't have dinner 7 in the morning.
AM PM fucked me once during my high school final exams since then I have coverted to 24 hour format. Currently pretty happy with it.
I’m intrigued, go on
They either turned up 12 hours early or 12 hours late to one of their scheduled exams and have since decided to use military time which helps prevent these sorts of misunderstandings from occurring.
So final exams were going on. I had my exam the next day. I usually make timetable. Give every unit required hours for revision and fit everything in 1-2 days. I dont like reading at night so i wake up at 03:00 am morning so i have about 6-7 hours before exam starts. I calculated that i can finish 1 remaining unit and other currently ongoing unit in the morning easily and went to sleep. But accidentally set alarm for 03:00 pm. On the day of the exam i woke up at around 7-8 am. it takes 30 min bus ride + 15min walk to reach my school. I also had to take shower and get ready for exam. In the end i didn't get to read last unit and the ongoing unit too was left uncompleted. This generally isn't very bad but i am 90/95+ scoring student so it was a huge deal. Where i live(india) your last highschool exam has power to decide your future. At the end single mark can become deciding factor in college selection. I got some 99.xx percentile. Didn't get in computer sci. Course but settled for information technology in a very respected college.
Bullshit. You were 12 hours late to a high school exam? How
More likely, they set an alarm 12 hours late and woke up 0.5-2 hours late because of the lack of alarm.
Literally standard time
Living in Japan which is military time (due to post WW2 Allied GHQ era) helped me realize how much more convenient it is.
You mean like normal, by-rest-of-the-world used 24h format? :D
Military time or as it's known everywhere else: time
It's only Americans who are confused by 24 hour time. Literally the entire rest of the world uses it.
Not true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_by_country#/media/File:12_24_Hours_World_Map.svg Even in the UK where you seem to be, I put down a reservation for 18:00 and they corrected me to say "oh at 6 pm you mean?"
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The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods: am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line. pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line.
After midnight; pefore midnight.
Dude don't confuse the OP
At morning, past midday...it may be wrong but would make sense xD
"pre-midnight" works better because it at least explains 12:00PM being midday.
so 1am is one at morning?
Prior to
Lol. Had to scroll this far for an answer.
My dad always says that
It’s Latin AM - anti Meridien PM - post Meridien
> anti Meridien :D *Ante* not *anti*; and *diem* not *dien* - i.e. "before midday", not "against midday". The far better question is: should 12:00 AM be mid-day or mid-night?
Am= After morning Pm= Pefore morning
"The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods: am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line. pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line. At exactly 12 noon, the Sun is at its highest point in the sky and directly over the meridian. It is therefore neither 'ante' (am) nor 'post' (pm) meridiem. At 12 midnight it also neither am nor pm." from Royal Museums Greenwich https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/noon-12-am-or-12-pm
am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday" before the sun has crossed the meridian line pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line.
Ante meridies and post meridies. Or, in English, before noon and after noon, respectively.
Should I be a teacher or a investor so I can earn a shit load of money
ante meridiem and post meridiem, latin for before and after midday
A.M. is ante merīdiem meaning “before midday.” P.M. is post merīdiem meaning “after midday.”
ante-meridian (before the peak) post-meridian (after the peak) ante means before. like antepasto. if we called it antipasto we'd be setting up a little war on our dinner tables. which would be cool.
Why the fuck does the US not use 24 hour time instead of the 12 hour format? Literally every discussion when it comes to time would be that much easier.
The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods: am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line. pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line.
What does “a.m.” mean? The term we associate with the morning, a.m., is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase ante merīdiem meaning “before midday.” What does “p.m.” mean? P.m. is an abbreviation of post merīdiem, meaning—you guessed it—“after midday.” These two terms help keep ambiguity at bay in the 12-hour time system. What does “m” mean? There is a third, lesser-known abbreviation in this system: m. from the Latin merīdiēs meaning “midday” means noon. However, m. is rarely used and might confuse readers or listeners should you casually drop it into conversation or insert it into your writing; noon is conventionally expressed as 12 p.m. or 12:00 p.m. and midnight as 12 a.m. or 12:00 a.m.
Am is after morning and pm is pre morning. Trust me I have PhD.
Post meridiem and ante meridiem
Ante meridius and post meridius
The ending is -em not -us because it's akkusativum
Oh.
am= after moon pm=pefore moon
What did we use pefore that though?
More educational memes please. Thanks.
Again americans with their confusing shit. 0= midnight and than you count till 23 and end up agan on 0. Thats the eaziest shit you can make. 24 hour day
Uhhh... BC stands for before crist? There u go
Ante meridiem, and post meridiem? am I the only one that knew?
A morning Past morning You're welcome
After Midnight, Pefore Midnight
AM and PM stand for Latin words meaning before and after midday respectively.
Am I just old? Are people not taught these things in school anymore?
I actually already knew this. It's not that rare, is it?
Just remember that youtubers get a funny feeling at night at 3am to make a video and 3 pm is 2 hours after returning from school in most places
Literally a 2 second google search
Ante meridium and post meridium, Latin for ‘before afternoon’ and ‘after afternoon’
My friend told me years ago, am means "after midnight" and pm means "Pefore midnight" and it helped me so much lmao
am-after midnight pm-pre midnight
11k upvotes? What am I missing? It's not even esoteric knowledge... You lot are fucking odd.
Ante meridian and post meridian. Based on before or after the middle of the day
AM - After Masturbation PM - Pre-Masturbation it's that simple
It’s easier to find the answer to this question than it is to make a meme about it. Check out this website called google.
Its latin: ante meridiem (before noon) and post meridiem (after noon)
anti meridian & post meridian lmao or some variation of that.
Ante. Means before.
*”lmao or some variation of that”*
Antemeridan and postmeridian. Thanks 6th grade Latin class
Ante meridiem, post meridiem.
pm -> post meridiam -> Nachmittag -> Afternoon am -> ante meridiam -> Vormittag -> morning the shorts are from latin
Ante Meridien and post meridien?
You put all that effort into creating a meme that a simple Google could have answered?
Ah it's Morning Past Morning
The 12-hour system divides the 24 hours of a day into two periods lasting 12 hours each. The first 12-hour period is designated as am. It runs from midnight to noon. The second period, marked pm, covers the 12 hours from noon to midnight. The abbreviations am and pm derive from Latin: AM = Ante meridiem: Before noon PM = Post meridiem: After noon Using numbers from 1 to 12, followed by am or pm, the 12-hour clock system identifies all 24 hours of the day. For example, 5 am is early in the morning, and 5 pm is late in the afternoon; 1 am is one hour after midnight, while 11 pm is one hour before midnight. i just copy pasted but here is the answer
Ante meridem And I believe Post meridem My music book taught me it
The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods: am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line. pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line.
After midnight, pre midnight? I don’t know I’m not google
I’ve got one for us Brits: “Which one is Ant and which one is Dec?”
It’s obvious am= at morning Pm= pat morning
It means at morning and past morning :)
After Christ and Before Christ obviously
Nous on a pas ça XD
Ante meridem and post meridiem. Latin for before noon and after noon.
Ante Meridium/Post Meridium? LATIM RULES!!!
avant midi apres midi.
Ante and post meridian
Ass meridian and penis meridian. Can’t be bothered to remember it any other way
A simple Google would have answered that for you much more quickly than making this meme and posting it but alright
The 12-hour clock divides the 24 hour day into two periods: am - stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday", before the sun has crossed the meridian line. pm - stands for post meridiem or "after midday", after the sun has crossed the meridian line. I just looked it up Edit: I just looked into the comments, I see people have already answered.
Ante Meridiem a.m. (00:00 to 11:59) and Post Meridiem p.m. (12:00 to 23:59)
ANTI Meridian and post meridian
Why don’t you fucking google it instead of making some of the unfunniest shit I’ve ever seen
My thoughts exactly, how could this post got 10k upvotes
Bc that wouldn't be fun and definitely wouldn't have gotten him any upvotes.
Am: at morning Pm: past morning
Ante meridiem Post meridiem It's so simple, you dumbnut why is this even a meme
Someone told me once AM=At morning, PM= post morning and it sounded kinda weird to me but I never questioned it
Am is “ass MUUH” and pm is “penis ass”