From araizen@newmail.net Sun Jun 29 07:37:10 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:41:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mxout3.netvision.net.il ([194.90.9.24]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19WdIk-0004O9-00 for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:37:10 -0700 Received: from default ([62.0.109.169]) by mxout3.netvision.net.il (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with SMTP id <0HH800AM2Z90EA@mxout3.netvision.net.il> for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:36:38 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:36:47 +0200 From: Adam Raizen Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Dates To: "lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org" Message-id: <0HH800AM6Z91EA@mxout3.netvision.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-archive-position: 397 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: araizen@newmail.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners de'i li 2003-06-25 ti'u li 18:27:00 la'o zoi. Travis Garris .zoi cusku di'e >I was reading other stuff on the Wiki about naming the >days of the week or the months of the year. The only >one that bothers me is naming the months after signs >of the Zodiac. There are 13 sun signs, and only >twelve months. I think our calendar is broken but I >doubt Lojban is the place to fix that. I have no >problem with saying "six-month". How do you think >October, November, and December were named? Using the zodiac for names of months was mostly a whimsical suggestion, similar to the various orthographies using different writing systems. For normal use I like numbers too. However, what's the 13th zodiac sign? I've only ever heard of 12. mu'o mi'e .adam.