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On 6/29/2015 9:00 AM, Michael Turniansky wrote:
> je'e .i ku'i ca lo nu so'a le me lu la'o gy Monday gy  se cmene zo
> pavdei li'u bende cu pante keikuko na xusra lo du'u mi na kajde do lo
> si'o kulnu zaznalnu'i va'u ii
>
>             --gejyspa
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org
> <mailto:phma@bezitopo.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Friday, June 26, 2015 11:55:20 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>     > We never really established it, but as I said in the original email
>     > proposing the the thing
>     >
>     >https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban/ja_mbMiAt4A/aNdRhAb91aIJ) :
>     > >  I suggest for the sake of cultural neutrality, making the cycle start
>     > >
>     > > so that zirdei be Tuesday, since I was born on Tuesday and purple is
>     > > my favorite color. If I was culturally un-neutral, I'd say xunday [sic] is
>     > > Sunday, since that's the "start" for both cycles..
>     >
>     >   Since these words never entered the dictionary, or had any other
>     > officialness, I used my suggestion and start with purple on tuesday...
>
>     Setting zirdei to Tuesday because that's your favorite color and
>     birthdate is
>     like making a gismu for "smoot". Lots of distances all over the
>     world are
>     measured in meters. Many distances (largely in the air) are measured
>     in feet.
>     Only one thing (a certain bridge) is measured in smoots.
>
>     Both of us agree that the first day is Sunday (and that, for religious
>     purposes, the week starts at the previous sunset), so I'm going to
>     enter them
>     with xundei being Sunday.

I haven't been following this discussion, so why are people discussing 
concocting a new system for days of the week?  The original method just 
attached a number for the day. I get confused these days from not using 
Lojban enough, but I think we dealt with the issue of where to start by 
allowing Sunday to be zero-day (and therefore first) or seven-day (and 
therefore last).  The international standard is that Monday is the first 
day of the week.

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/

Any particular religion should not enter into the consideration at all. 
  See the definition of jeftu which even allows for the possibility of 
other-than-seven day weeks, though the default should probably be the 
international standard.

Doing anything with colors or other oddball schemes is a likely to 
succeed as attempts to redo the months of the year, or clock times.

lojbab

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