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On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:37:58PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 9/10/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > See: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_week>
> > >
> > I'm sorry, I don't understand something, clearly.  If the names
> > are numerical, how can we say which is associated with Sunday?
> > Surely they are completely unrelated scales about which no
> > direct comparison can be made?
> 
> You wait until it's Sunday and then ask a speaker of the language
> in question "what day is today?" and there you have it. :)

But...  But... They're unrelated systems in different calendars!
Couldn't the answer to that question change throughout the year?

-Robin

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