Analog time

I've been wearing my watch (still love it!) since I turned 40... (give or take a few weeks)It's a mechanical watch with hands and stuff.Walking down the street today someone who was waiting for the bus asked me for the time. "Twenty-till nine."Growing up I always heard the idea of half-past, quarter-till, and so on. In Hungarian 8:30 would be "fél kilenc" which directly translates to "half nine."I never really got into it.Today, it felt natural looking at the face of the watch. It never really did before. The realm of digital timepieces lend themselves to just reading out the numbers: eight forty. Looking at the face of the watch I first thought "a third to nine" but quickly corrected myself to not sound like an idiot.It's just a little realization I had. I know it's simple... but somehow it registered when I said it out loud.