If I were doing a super-formal invitation, I'd say, "half past eleven o'clock."
I'll nurse you back to health. I'll wear the nurse outfit!
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Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Susan W. - Nov 13, 2005 3:58:01 pm PST #4504 of 10003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
§ ita § - Nov 13, 2005 3:59:07 pm PST #4505 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
During most of its history, these forms were usually used with names of whole numbers only--"three o'clock," not "three thirty o'clock." Indication of day or night was done by specifying "six o'clock at night." The style you cite--"6:30 p.m. o'clock"--is a very formal style found in invitations and other rigid contexts. In most cases one would simply say "6:30 p.m.," but in formal situations the expression of time is felt to be incomplete without the "p.m." and the "o'clock." While this is indeed awkward, it is rare; it can be pretentious when used in non-formal ways. And very formal invitations have enough awkward elements to them that we probably shouldn't worry too much about how the time is stated.
From here.
sj - Nov 13, 2005 4:01:27 pm PST #4506 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Deena, insent.
vw bug - Nov 13, 2005 4:41:10 pm PST #4507 of 10003
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Emily's flight is delayed. I'm sleepy. This is not a good combination for someone who's supposed to be picking her up from the airport.
Cass - Nov 13, 2005 5:13:48 pm PST #4508 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Oh, not good combination, vw.
erika, Sherrif Joe is on all of the NASCAR news (Kurt Busch, a driver, was arrested for reckless driving and possible DUI and was more than rude to the officers) today. Good times... My dumb-ass racing people are saying he's not a "fan of NASCAR." Sheesh. When cowboy meets dumbass...
DCJensen - Nov 13, 2005 5:33:15 pm PST #4509 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
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vw bug - Nov 13, 2005 5:59:24 pm PST #4510 of 10003
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Emily finally took off!
Cass - Nov 13, 2005 6:02:30 pm PST #4511 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Fly, Em, fly!
vw bug - Nov 13, 2005 6:03:38 pm PST #4512 of 10003
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I'm gonna be SO sleepy tomorrow!
I put my jammies on already and brushed my teeth, so when I get home I can go straight to bed.
I know. I'm weird.
libkitty - Nov 13, 2005 7:03:33 pm PST #4513 of 10003
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Just read about the brunch, Sparky, and it reminded me about when I did my internship at the University of San Francisco Gleeson Library. This is a Jesuit institution. They threw a lovely party each year in the special collections for St. Jerome's Day (the patron saint of libraries). The party seemed marvelously fancy, with wine and grapes and fancy cheeses, but I think that may have been because it was in California instead of Alaska and perhaps partially because it's a private institution. I'll just say that the parties I've been to at public institutions in Alaska have been much more lowbrow. Fun, but lowbrow.