From lojban+bncCJrK5PGGEBC_5rLlBBoE6xgNqw@googlegroups.com Wed Oct 06 10:35:12 2010 Received: from mail-ww0-f61.google.com ([74.125.82.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P3XtU-0001XL-J5; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:35:12 -0700 Received: by wwe15 with SMTP id 15sf2032577wwe.16 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:35:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:received:received :received:received-spf:received:received:received:from:organization :to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :x-interia-antivirus:x-emid:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe; bh=rscnkhlrKgMxPMcmoUDlJuS9fXSQ50PVzCdpTfQZXxo=; b=i8sLtEwGfvAAV6/AJULNTl06tvlWFADNvk7+PpXeTU2AAtVSdh/uUMwh37VSlSsawF hF9tet+in+LyjvzoSI1tcAjHcNrSOX7721EJnR8tcOx+pEqscbjv0YZllkUbh/zUgHMO 3hHE12HND+gO9NoRcpoJU8gJ3i3BgYSfYwqh4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:from:organization:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:x-interia-antivirus:x-emid :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive :sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe; b=pZsdI3UbB7AMuDwX7aA9A9t/OdXTV5m0PmlHXfcYwcGTolYcFJijFg6yfkdwLG9o1J hoEU44jJAlqbb35Lsyi5BU+kVKsy/tVJvumYHcc6WhJME0IZe0tNCEmLvGr0KT4ASYsX RB49kdrZ0vDeONoWPHOiOsik1c/bg4pY5FIP8= Received: by 10.216.145.226 with SMTP id p76mr2454089wej.3.1286386495213; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:34:55 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.14.36.29 with SMTP id v29ls588996eea.3.p; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.29.71 with SMTP id h47mr305972eea.22.1286386493175; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.29.71 with SMTP id h47mr305971eea.22.1286386493156; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpo.poczta.interia.pl (smtpo.poczta.interia.pl [217.74.65.205]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id b5si1161469eei.4.2010.10.06.10.34.53; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of jezuch@interia.pl designates 217.74.65.205 as permitted sender) client-ip=217.74.65.205; Received: by smtpo.poczta.interia.pl (INTERIA.PL, from userid 502) id 94B59102CE71; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:34:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zx-spectrum-1 (c204.idd156.nettete.pl [77.79.204.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by poczta.interia.pl (INTERIA.PL) with ESMTPSA for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:34:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jezuch by zx-spectrum-1 with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P3Xzm-0001L2-8l for lojban@googlegroups.com; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:41:38 +0200 From: Krzysztof Sobolewski Organization: Sobole To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: a different weekday proposal Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:41:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.33.7-test; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <0cee366c-9694-4744-b8fe-2d95a393f3a6@y12g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <26bc2bd7-bad2-4dc7-b394-b72ecd3ce4a7@e14g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <26bc2bd7-bad2-4dc7-b394-b72ecd3ce4a7@e14g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1867965.xWHiQiPemX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010061941.38180.jezuch@interia.pl> X-Interia-Antivirus: OK X-EMID: 3ca48acc X-Original-Sender: jezuch@interia.pl X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of jezuch@interia.pl designates 217.74.65.205 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=jezuch@interia.pl Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , --nextPart1867965.xWHiQiPemX Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dnia =C5=9Broda, 6 pa=C5=BAdziernika 2010 o 10:24:40 Balon_ napisa=C5=82(a): > In some cultures and countries Sunday is not restday. Sunday is > workday. It's a pity, because I tcetcetce nelci "niedziela" for a do-nothing day. > partyday in Saturday is specific to western culture. Every day is party day! ;) > mijdei should be thursday not wednesday. And yet "=C5=9Broda" (mid-day) is wednesday. Even though "czwartek" (fourth= =2Dday) and "pi=C4=85tek" (fifth-day) are thursday and friday, respectively= =2E Inconsistencies in natural languages are lovely ;) > Why friday is payday? It seems to me this is not even specific to Western culture, but only to An= glo-Saxon one, where there are wages paid weekly. Considering all this, I wonder: we have local major money units (rupnu), lo= cal length units (gutci), local area units (kramu), but time is measured in= minutes, hours, days (OK, this is no surprise), 7-day weeks and 1/12-of-th= e-year months. Why? =2D-=20 Ecce Jezuch "Do unto others what has been done to you (...) Do unto you now what has been done to me." - M. J. 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