From lojban-out@lojban.org Sat Sep 10 11:37:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 95227 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2005 18:37:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m22.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Sep 2005 18:37:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Sep 2005 18:37:38 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EEAEM-0001La-SN for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:37:39 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EEAD2-0001K4-0w; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:36:20 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:36:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EE7Qf-0007aH-Qo for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:38:09 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.199]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EE7QY-0007Zs-2B for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:38:09 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i23so1399051wra for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:37:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.5.77 with SMTP id 77mr1230367wre; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:37:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.66.5 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:37:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <925d175605091008376611bae7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:37:58 -0300 In-Reply-To: <20050910070955.GT23157@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <925d1756050909114649d4da7b@mail.gmail.com> <925d175605090914066527a451@mail.gmail.com> <20050909212649.GO23157@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d175605090916346b513f6d@mail.gmail.com> <20050910070955.GT23157@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 10574 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-eGroups-From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= Reply-To: jjllambias@gmail.com Subject: [lojban] Re: detcartu la renonoxanan. X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=AwPRc7AbMyhGWvyGqg7Be9HYOZSE_C1UIuxKa62mzHEyFScU7g X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 24956 On 9/10/05, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > See: > > > 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. :) Besides, there is the historical connection. In Chinese the old names were like the Korean and Japanese ones before they changed to numerical. The Portuguese names descend from Latin names used by the Church because the old names were associated with pagan gods. The Quakers do the same in English for the same reason, for them Sunday is "First Day", Monday "Second Day" and so on through to Saturday which is "Seventh Day". (I don't know how much confusion this causes in distinguishing the first seven days of the month from the days of the week.) mu'o mi'e xorxes To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.