From araizen@newmail.net Wed Nov 01 13:47:21 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: araizen@newmail.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 1 Nov 2000 21:47:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 27456 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2000 21:45:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 Nov 2000 21:45:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO out.newmail.net) (212.150.51.26) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Nov 2000 21:45:18 -0000 Received: from default ([62.0.182.24]) by out.newmail.net ; Wed, 01 Nov 2000 23:32:10 +0200 To: lojban@egroups.com Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:30:58 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Re: month names Reply-to: araizen@newmail.net Priority: normal In-reply-to: <972996452.77540@egroups.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <97315033101@out.newmail.net> From: "Adam Raizen" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4781 > << i would probably prefer some arbitrary 12 of the animals for the months >> > Why not take the (ok, abstractly arbitrary, but culturally fixed) zodiacal > animals from China. I think (but have not checked) that there are gismu for > most of them. The western zodiac gets off of animals occasionally and so > does not work as well. We could still use the western zodiac signs. It doesn't have to be animals. The western zodiac signs are already pretty well fixed to the months. The biggest problem is distinguishing between crabs and scorpions in lojban. January la kanbyma'i February la jaurbeima'i March la fipma'i April la lanma'i May la bakma'i June la matsi'uma'i (twins?) July la jukma'i August la cinfyma'i September la xlima'i October la ci'urma'i or la laxma'i November la jukrskorpio masti December la celma'i Some of them are metaphorical or not exact equivalents of the English names of the zodiac and might to be the best name. co'o mi'e adam