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To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: a different weekday proposal Message-ID: <20101006200702.GA25427@alice.local> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@googlegroups.com References: <0cee366c-9694-4744-b8fe-2d95a393f3a6@y12g2000prb.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Original-Sender: alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 74.125.83.176 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of alanpost@sunflowerriver.org) smtp.mail=alanpost@sunflowerriver.org 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 03:58:44PM -0400, Stela Selckiku wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Lindar wrote: > > gundei - workday (monday) > > lumdei - washday (tuesday) > > mijdei - middleday (wednesday) > > datydei - otherday (thursday) > > lejdei - payday (friday) > > sladei - partyday (saturday) > > surdei - restday (sunday) > > Hey! How come my thread has been hijacked for discussion of various > nonlojbanicculture ideas?? That's the same merry-go-round we've been > on for years. I quoted Lindar because I do like his ideas, I think > it'd be great if we could have a "sladei", sounds like a fun day, but > unfortunately people would indeed assume it was Saturday. What I'm > suggesting we think of is NEW ideas! We just think of 7 different fun > things to do, and assign them randomly to days of the week. > > For instance za'e "dutydei" (dukti zei djedi, opposite+day) could be a > day where you have fun doing things the opposite of how you'd usually > do them. (In my merko culture there's an idea of Opposite Day, but it > seems to happen randomly and isn't associated with any day of the > week.) > > Or za'e "badnydei" (badna zei djedi, banana+day) could be a day for > eating bananas (and dressing up like bananas and making silly shoops > of talking bananas). > > We could have a za'e "dridei" (badri zei djedi, sad+day) for being sad > and a za'e "geidje" (gleki zei djedi, happy+day) for being happy. > > Perhaps a za'e "pemdei" (pemci zei djedi, poem+day) for reading and > writing Lojbanic poetry. > > Or how about a za'e "raftadydei" (rafsi zei tadni zei djedi, > rafsi+study+day) where we all study our rafsi. > > That's my idea is that it would be easy to learn the weekday names > because we'd be doing something together on them. You'd remember that > whichever day is pemdei, because every pemdei there'd be lots of new > Lojbanic poetry and people quoting and reciting old poems. You'd > remember what day is raftadydei because every raftadydei people would > be quizzing each other on rafsi. I think it's an opportunity to make > Lojbanistan a more creative and engaging space. I think we'd have a > lot more fun on badnydei talking about bananas and telling the > nintadni it's banana-day than we will having another discussion about > why numbered days are good/bad, or why the element day names are > good/bad and how to remember them. Doesn't anyone like my idea? :) > > mi'e > > la stela selckiku > > mu'o > My position on this is the same as .aionys.' position, which he stated earlier. I do propose, however, that on xedbig we have these event days, because the kernel of your ideas is one I find engaging. -Alan -- .i ko djuno fi le do sevzi -- 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. 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