From lojban-beginners+bncCMTB0cHaCBC94t7yBBoEMgIxaA@googlegroups.com Fri Aug 26 07:44:25 2011 Received: from mail-gw0-f61.google.com ([74.125.83.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qwxdu-00073m-Ad; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:44:25 -0700 Received: by gwb11 with SMTP id 11sf5270185gwb.16 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:44:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:date:from:reply-to:to:message-id:in-reply-to:references :subject:mime-version:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:precedence:mailing-list:list-id :x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=82vECdGcF1UtAx9hGIwVBx+m185wjRbtMUXS1Bf8Jb4=; b=HqhnWlgahJnfFmrNtGmI+vCtpxhp1eGvNQVojAQPRFxziqSws0oNIR70qBqrHPyx03 2GFkx3gwXP67i+ezNuf+D3WtJ9EBTSDXZ2mCPj4xB/aEdV+nriEJ9LXzN8V8xnKmr4r0 CItYccKlxgF8ZiaNwkm3r+AkmC4ZziHwR4wWk= Received: by 10.236.155.105 with SMTP id i69mr814124yhk.19.1314369853437; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:44:13 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.90.116.9 with SMTP id o9ls7373491agc.3.gmail; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:44:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.91.186.9 with SMTP id n9mr244368agp.29.1314369851934; Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:44:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:44:11 -0700 (PDT) From: DataPacRat Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Message-ID: <17288078.1140.1314369851333.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yqgn17> In-Reply-To: <7641019f-1e1d-43fa-8498-e1996b893f0e@h6g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> References: <7641019f-1e1d-43fa-8498-e1996b893f0e@h6g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Lojbanifying the Tranquility Calendar MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: datapacrat@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: ls.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of datapacrat@gmail.com designates internal as permitted sender) smtp.mail=datapacrat@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_1139_19927409.1314369851331" ------=_Part_1139_19927409.1314369851331 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Friday, 26 August 2011 09:02:19 UTC-4, cybrown wrote: > > I can't help you with the Lojban but wanted to thank you for teaching > me something new today. I love the Tranquility calendar. What's up > with the days of the week you mentioned though? The article you linked > just calls them by their normal names (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, etc.) > Did you make up these names? > Kind of, but not quite. :) In most Romance languages, the days of the week are named after the seven classic heavenly bodies - the Sun, the Moon, and the five planets visible to the naked eye. When those names were exported to the Germanic cultures, some of them were fiddled with to be named after the Germanic gods that were thought to be parallel to the Roman/Greek god of that planet - warlike Tyr for Mars, communicator Odin/Wotan for Mercury, thundering Thor for Jupiter, beautiful Frigga for Venus. Since the whole point of the Tranquility Calendar is to name things after thinkers and explorers, instead of the existing calendar that was an agglutination of whatever came up, it simply seemed odd to me to retain the existing days of the week - so I simply stripped away the extra layers that had been added to weekday-names, and got back to the original astronomical references, which seemed satisfyingly sciency. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban-beginners/-/4xwViFHqgCcJ. 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=en. ------=_Part_1139_19927409.1314369851331 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday, 26 August 2011 09:02:19 UTC-4, cybrown wrote:
I can't help you with the Lojban but wanted to = thank you for teaching
me something new today. I love the Tranquility calendar.  What's u= p
with the days of the week you mentioned though? The article you linked
just calls them by their normal names (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, etc.)
Did you make up these names?

Kind of, but not = quite. :)

In most Romance languages, the days of the week are named = after the seven classic heavenly bodies - the Sun, the Moon, and the five p= lanets visible to the naked eye. When those names were exported to the Germ= anic cultures, some of them were fiddled with to be named after the Germani= c gods that were thought to be parallel to the Roman/Greek god of that plan= et - warlike Tyr for Mars, communicator Odin/Wotan for Mercury, thundering = Thor for Jupiter, beautiful Frigga for Venus. Since the whole point of the = Tranquility Calendar is to name things after thinkers and explorers, instea= d of the existing calendar that was an agglutination of whatever came up, i= t simply seemed odd to me to retain the existing days of the week - so I si= mply stripped away the extra layers that had been added to weekday-names, a= nd got back to the original astronomical references, which seemed satisfyin= gly sciency.

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