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Malam Minggu means Saturday evening/night (Sunday eve). Minggu malam means Sunday evening/night.
lurut malam Senin

So...not knowing how to say "very early Tuesday morning",
I opted for lurut malam Senin, thinking I was saying "very late Monday night".    Was I really saying "very late on the eve of Monday"?   Should I have said lurat Senin malam?


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>many a chicken that's hot on Frynight gets warmed over on Satyrnight and Sunnight.

MY chicken stays hot all weekend!



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"MY chicken stays hot all weekend!" Ted, does your wife agree??

Church's Chicken serves on everyday, not just Sunday.

In the South, every night is Frynight. Saturnight follows as in 'sat her right on down on the pot after eating too much on Frynight'.







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BelMarduk notes the different periods in a day. For better than 1500 years, Europeans observed some form of the canonical hours, the system used in monasteries, which had 3-hour periods, with the monks gathering in the chapel to chant the appropriate office for each. These were:

Matins: at midnight
Lauds: 3 a.m.
Prime: daybreak or 6 a.m.
Tierce: 3 hours after Prime, or 9 a.m.
Sext: noon
Nones: 3 hours after Sext, or 3 p.m.
Vespers: sunset, or 6 p.m.
Compline: 3 hours after Vespers, or 9 p.m.

The names for the daytime hours show that they are the first, third, sixth and ninth hours of the day. (Which is how you know what the King James Version of the Bible is talking about when it mentions "the sixth hour" or "the ninth hour".)

Towards the end of the Middle Ages, in many monasteries, some of these were combined, like Matins and Lauds, sung at midnight, and Vespers and Compline sometime between sunset and the hour for retiring. Also Tierce might be conjoined right after Prime, and Nones right after Sext. So that by the time of the Reformation many communities had Matins/Lauds at midnight, Prime/Tierce at daybreak or 6 a.m., Sext/Nones at noon, Vespers/Compline around sunset or somewhere between 6 and 8 pm.

Fractions of these periods were called in the German fashion (where halb sechs is 5:30 or halfway to six), such as half nones = 1:30 p.m. or thereabouts, or halfway from sext to nones.


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I opted for lurut malam Senin, thinking I was saying "very late Monday night". Was I really saying "very late on the eve of Monday"? Should I have said lurat Senin malam?


Late Monday night would be lurut Senin malam or lurut malam Selasa. You could probably say pagi-pagi hari Selasa. The day starting at midnight is one of those things the language hasn't really caught up with yet.

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