From lojban+bncCNSZ3eHoCBDw6LLlBBoEwjlhOQ@googlegroups.com Wed Oct 06 10:40:20 2010 Received: from mail-fx0-f61.google.com ([209.85.161.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P3XyR-0001mF-Mh; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:40:20 -0700 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17sf1626559fxm.16 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:40:07 -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:mime-version:received :in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :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:content-type; bh=RNeiR/llFw0BvQ/lOZM9Cv2e/UpSKyhHDQsXlQfx960=; b=EMX1ccZ3+zeLHHy0ggYix7JyZkDnSJKAsEGWBP4eKsMGOLX2AlAaMayQEnvfTTJ1BC 07M+QQScRvIfL/up074EiMPyUFu/Xn0au2yonqgDmKCcPHH4rMY2PjaYsmbCf2YeMitB zz6KiljbrLtiUq55rWC51PutdaRHTp55Nw8pQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to: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:content-type; b=Lfld114rK/3F6qjXCl8bM3E7OzY0vZrBJcYT5I9WPb26+PxCagj57r32ZC2jPwZ1v0 UTz8EEtqPC5ng37znogzG7kaqBhHClvj/AWSH1xJH5kcsRSiORVJgVDfsIZnZESGgpYZ Jq8oN4ZTjP2oC+eXC3kPRcU2Ksv156D8ky4fU= Received: by 10.223.5.194 with SMTP id 2mr567584faw.3.1286386800879; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:40:00 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.204.48.209 with SMTP id s17ls2608597bkf.2.p; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.85.89 with SMTP id n25mr445643bkl.8.1286386799817; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.85.89 with SMTP id n25mr445642bkl.8.1286386799761; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-bw0-f49.google.com (mail-bw0-f49.google.com [209.85.214.49]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id n18si581466bkw.2.2010.10.06.10.39.58; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of frankdmartinez@gmail.com designates 209.85.214.49 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.214.49; Received: by mail-bw0-f49.google.com with SMTP id 19so6441505bwz.8 for ; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.51.145 with SMTP id d17mr10094886bkg.20.1286386798525; Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:39:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.50.82 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:39:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201010061941.38180.jezuch@interia.pl> References: <0cee366c-9694-4744-b8fe-2d95a393f3a6@y12g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <26bc2bd7-bad2-4dc7-b394-b72ecd3ce4a7@e14g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <201010061941.38180.jezuch@interia.pl> From: Frank Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 13:39:38 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: a different weekday proposal To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: frankdmartinez@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of frankdmartinez@gmail.com designates 209.85.214.49 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=frankdmartinez@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@gmail.com 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: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016368e23802b80d30491f6445a --0016368e23802b80d30491f6445a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 6 October 2010 13:41, Krzysztof Sobolewski wrote: > > > It seems to me this is not even specific to Western culture, but only to > Anglo-Saxon one, where there are wages paid weekly. > Even then, only some places pay weekly. Some places pay twice a month, once a month, or every two weeks. Occasionally, One finds Workers paid daily. > Considering all this, I wonder: we have local major money units (rupnu), > local 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-the-year months. Why? > I realized I may have spending too much time on facebook when I started looking around for the 'like' button to mark this observation. ;-) mi'e xuinkrbin. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. --0016368e23802b80d30491f6445a Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On 6 October 2010 13:41, Krzysztof Sobol= ewski <jezuch@int= eria.pl> wrote:

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.

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Even then, only some places pay weekly. =A0Some places pay twice= a month, once a month, or every two weeks. =A0Occasionally, One finds Work= ers paid daily.
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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?

I realized I may have spending too much ti= me on facebook when I started looking around for the 'like' button = to mark this observation. =A0;-)

mi'e xu= inkrbin.

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