From lojban+bncCNCCoMTMDhDuzLjlBBoEJJzXXA@googlegroups.com Thu Oct 07 12:58:55 2010 Received: from mail-wy0-f189.google.com ([74.125.82.189]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P3wc8-0007f3-2d; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:58:55 -0700 Received: by wyb40 with SMTP id 40sf63958wyb.16 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:58:45 -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=ULZPj2g1NyJ5dy2JLoWcuPr4NwctftVglIjI3xL+ncA=; b=x0pYGwulZJ/QN/TVhPyn8C2IODEZwnqDsxr2x/d0CkQzka73NNYlpidsuQAf3i6w9e eyYXCMGBUQyQmuTKZTTchZLAeuM3v6lYIKX6sn7hz6+Hn/GaI8O9/019JT9FOvnhl1XH 79yB7LblIq0yUOUeOs3teIoRRUdFRtf9jqn4Y= 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=u41eA7nkejLSr3zCCEk7PHWA4q0/UzUnIkyw/YlvDnHoq/beAGCYRNUx8Q8jnqds4h P4hIYewBShcmY2YPdMCM2dzWeBsw80dUc4ejzNRRHqeAhhBSkORM2X4SlH1qWT678WYH KcHrL3dd9gzVyNYIOnDvRoZ9bs5MOYCtgNm4A= Received: by 10.216.145.90 with SMTP id o68mr286275wej.8.1286481518718; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:58:38 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.213.41.69 with SMTP id n5ls188613ebe.2.p; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.73.144 with SMTP id v16mr72425wed.12.1286481517453; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.73.144 with SMTP id v16mr72424wed.12.1286481517428; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ww0-f47.google.com (mail-ww0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id o46si865165weq.2.2010.10.07.12.58.36; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:58:36 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of selckiku@gmail.com designates 74.125.82.47 as permitted sender) client-ip=74.125.82.47; Received: by mail-ww0-f47.google.com with SMTP id 26so337490wwf.4 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:58:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.138.147 with SMTP id a19mr1357219wbu.93.1286481516254; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:58:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.139.198 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:58:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <0cee366c-9694-4744-b8fe-2d95a393f3a6@y12g2000prb.googlegroups.com> From: Stela Selckiku Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:58:06 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: a different weekday proposal To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: selckiku@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of selckiku@gmail.com designates 74.125.82.47 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=selckiku@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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Jonathan Jones wrote: > > It's not fear. It's laziness. In /every/ language, the most used words are > also the shortest. Even if we did use those names for the days of the week, > it's a guarantee that they will be shortened really quickly. Weekdays are > used often enough that anything more than three syllables is a waste. I do agree that it's inevitable and useful that weekdays will have short names, but I also think it would be nice if they had long names too. Long names have a richness to them, they can hold a story. If you think about it, the inevitability of well-used words being worn down to short forms is just as good an argument for why we should focus especially on making long names for things-- the short names, after all, will naturally take care of themselves! As to the business at hand, anyone have an opinion of which day xarjvectibadnydei should be? I don't care which day it is, I'm just looking forward to shooping some bananas! mi'e .telselkik. mu'o -- 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.