From lojban-beginners+bncCObmruz5AxDPucDlBBoExBkYrg@googlegroups.com Sat Oct 09 00:42:35 2010 Received: from mail-yx0-f189.google.com ([209.85.213.189]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P4U4e-0002c6-AP; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:42:35 -0700 Received: by yxk30 with SMTP id 30sf1750906yxk.16 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:42:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:received :mime-version:received:received:date:in-reply-to:x-ip:references :user-agent:x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to :x-original-sender:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id :list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EEzWaur3qjAlLqq2/g+hNWcba9gUG1M69mOC9rZVWJw=; b=i3QQ5q+D/NTLB6CjIaFZdtp8t+zBwWy85FUY+3n1M7cz/O+NTK/QedqgjOIAu7dosX nldBC1vJrCVjxiViL5smKw24zOEBtmPQps4gZCKBezZg7pumXCgRyErwLsKkd0PV7Qsg pGtf4/guX9lDCMzSxAANnSke6nU/eJJ212I4s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:x-ip:references :user-agent:x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to :x-original-sender:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id :list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=K0n8J6NDAxo6eoqeFGwMqY4GcBYP9mewDn6ALQeqtasQv3HL8TkidgvFC3jG9PTDQ7 QD2SQtRIOMI5h/E6tz/ZpjQL3b63MMFbmGFhK/V+bgz43k4EQTtfKiEi6xSXBZ5KgshM lEr/f//eP/pFKTUqD3Q4QKw30B+s1XVLoar8Q= Received: by 10.91.199.12 with SMTP id b12mr280571agq.46.1286610127248; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:42:07 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.150.53.21 with SMTP id b21ls556005yba.4.p; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.197.14 with SMTP id u14mr837935ybf.27.1286610126833; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:42:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.65.9 with SMTP id n9mr61336wfa.49.1286587083202; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by k17g2000prf.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:18:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20101006163218.GE24166@alice.local> X-IP: 24.6.240.210 References: <20101006163218.GE24166@alice.local> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.36 Safari/534.7,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban] A suggestion for the Lojban names of weekdays and months. From: Amber Shadow To: Lojban Beginners X-Original-Sender: ambersshadows@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It would be cool to split up the year into twelve months (as it is) and then each month into either 24, 28, or 36 days and then split each of those into six day weeks. Since lojbanists seem to like base 12 a lot :) On Oct 6, 9:32=A0am, ".alyn.post." wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:24:20PM +0200, Remo Dentato wrote: > > BTW we are talking about the Gregorian Calendar, right? > > > I always thought that Lojbanistan was using International Fixed > > Calendar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar) > > for cultural neutrality! > > > =A0:) > > I was hoping I wasn't going to be the first person to question why > weeks had to have 7 days, or why the Gregorian Calendar was assumed > to be universal. > > There are many fascinating proposals regarding calendar reform: > > =A0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform > > The one that got the most traction was eventually blocked on > religious objections, namely that it didn't have repeating 7-day > cycles: > > =A0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar > > I've personally wanted to see a marriage of lunar and solar > calendars along a 19-year cycle: > > =A0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycle > > Having said all of this, my own attempts to follow a non-gregorian > calendar, with or without Lojban, has been a struggle in > reconciling any new calendar system with the world's use of the > gregorian calendar. > > -Alan > -- > .i ko djuno fi le do sevzi --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@= googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban= -beginners?hl=3Den.