From lojban-out@lojban.org Sat Sep 10 09:32:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 10524 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2005 16:32:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m31.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 10 Sep 2005 16:32:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Sep 2005 16:32:28 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EE8HB-0008H3-OZ for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:32:25 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EE8Fz-0008Fu-Gt; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:31:15 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EE8Fg-0008Fh-Jf for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:30:52 -0700 Received: from web81302.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.77]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EE8Fd-0008Fa-6E for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:30:52 -0700 Received: (qmail 16125 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Sep 2005 16:30:46 -0000 Message-ID: <20050910163046.16123.qmail@web81302.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.88.32.165] by web81302.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:30:46 PDT Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:30:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20050910070955.GT23157@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -1.3 (-) X-archive-position: 10573 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: clifford-j@sbcglobal.net X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-eGroups-From: John E Clifford From: John E Clifford Reply-To: clifford-j@sbcglobal.net Subject: [lojban] Re: detcartu la renonoxanan. X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=ZUEhukwv-yg2Gb9nJBJ8f6cfRJ3Zg6Zv24fd8GI5El8_uFBoqQ X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 24955 Go beyond the words to look at the things: What day is it in the next country over that uses one of the other naming device? What day do Christians go to church, Jews to synagogue, Muslims to maosque? And so on. (most numerical systems provide other clues -- someting religious for Sunday rather than just 1 or 7, for example, or for Saturday. --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:34:35PM -0300, Jorge > Llamb?as wrote: > > On 9/9/05, Robin Lee Powell > wrote: > > > > > Do their names for the days correspond to > monday, tuesday, etc, > > > in an obvious fashion? If not, I'd say > it's totally irrelevant. > > > If so, I'd like documentation, please. > > > > > > See: > > > > > Look at the Japanese and Korean names and > compare with the ones > > proposed for Lojban. > > > > Hebrew, Portuguese, Icelandic, Estonian, > Polish, Russian, Chinese > > and Church Latin use numerical, but some > start with Sunday = 1 and > > others with Monday = 1 > > 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? > > -Robin > > -- > http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** > http://www.lojban.org/ > Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their > Grate!" > Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - > http://singinst.org/ > > > 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. > > 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.