Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Re: month names

From: Ivan A Derzhanski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:08:42 +0200

Adam Raizen wrote:
> We could still use the western zodiac signs. It doesn't have to be
> animals. The western zodiac signs are already pretty well fixed to
> the months.

Not really. I'm sure I've seen a different mapping in some sources.
One that associates Aquarius with January, and so on.

> The biggest problem is distinguishing between crabs
> and scorpions in lojban.
>
> January la kanbyma'i
> February la jaurbeima'i
[...]
> November la jukrskorpio masti
> December la celma'i

To my mind forming some month names from gismu, others from
lujvo, others still from fu'ivla introduces an ugly sort of
heterogeneity.

--Ivan