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From: "A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] days of the week
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> On Tuesday 25 January 2011 08:59:22 A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
> > With due respect to Pierre, janvari, frebuari etc just
> > introduces an=A0anglo-bias into Lojban that will simply
> > turn off potential non-anglo lojbanists.
> >
> > jbovlaste already has pavmasti, relmasti, cibmasti etc
> > which seem to be just fine and consistent with
> > pavdei, reldei etc for days.
>=20
> "listopad" has a hemisphere bias, as do other non-Latin and non-number na=
mes=20
> of Gregorian months. "pavmasti" would collide with non-Roman calendars, i=
n=20
> which the first month is at different times of the year. As the Gregorian=
=20
> calendar is the fourth version of the Roman calendar,=20

Yet the Roman calendar is used just about all over the world.=A0 Note that,=
 even=20
though the traditional Chinese and Japanese New Years do not coincide with =
the=20
Western New Year, Jan 1st is now celebrated in both China and Japan.

> I thought it fitting to=20
> take the names of the months from Latin, though the forms of the words ar=
e=20
> taken from various languages ("ianvari" is from Russian, "madjio" is from=
=20
> Italian) or from no particular language. A quick check of Wiktionary show=
s a=20
> large plurality, possibly a majority, of languages using Latin-derived wo=
rds=20
> for month names.
>=20

But I don't think you should equate languages with only a 'few' speakers=20
to languages with 'many'.=A0 My guide (for fu'ivla, say) always is the weig=
hted=20
vocabularies of Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi, Spanish and Russian -=20
which of course is what were used to derive most gismu.=A0=20

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