Have you noticed that younger people seem slower to tell time from "traditional" clock faces?

In My Humble Opinion
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I have a collection of business cards in my wallet.

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What are we going to substitute for ‘clockwise’ and ‘counterclockwise’? Righty and lefty?

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Isn’t it obvious? Deasil and Widdershins of course.

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I’m a Gen-Xer who grew up with plenty of analog clocks, and I would say that it doesn’t take me longer to know the time from an analog clock, but it does take me longer to tell the time, in the sense of being able to tell someone else. Like, if I’m looking at a digital clock that says 6:49, I hear the words “six-forty-nine” in my head and can say them immediately, but if I’m looking at an analog clock, I know what time it is, but I can’t hear any words in my head and I have to take a second to translate the visual representation into language.

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Young people are ignorant and increasingly so. What else is new? I have the misfortune of knowing people born after 2000 who don’t know what a quarter pound is or what .75 means. I also know people born in the 1990s that don’t know what the word “hypothetical” means.

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But can they spell?