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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 10:25:06 A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
> > But I don't think you should equate languages with only a 'few' speaker=
s
> > to languages with 'many'.=A0 My guide (for fu'ivla, say) always is the
> > weighted vocabularies of Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi, Spanish and
> > Russian - which of course is what were used to derive most gismu.
>=20
> Okay, considering those six (I assume one "Spanish" should be "Arabic"):
> Chinese uses numbers to name months.
> English, Spanish, and Russian all use words derived from Latin "ianuarius=
"=20
> etc.
> Hindi month names are from English, though a couple are spelled a bit=20
> differently (e.g. "Sitember"). Hindi also has names for the months of the=
=20
> Hindu calendar.
> Arabic has two sets of names for months in the Gregorian calendar. One is=
 the=20
> Westernized set and is from Latin. The other is used in Syria; most of th=
em=20
> resemble months of the Jewish calendar and are of Babylonian origin. Arab=
ic=20
> also has names of the Muslim calendar months.
> Without bothering to figure the weights, that's 4.5 votes for words of La=
tin=20
> origin. What's the weighted tally? How much of the Arabic-speaking world =
uses=20
> the Westernized set?

Pierre, I wasn't arguing for having the months named according to the six m=
ain=20
languages.=A0 I had already stated my preference for {pavmasti} etc.

I did however, object to your frequent use of the number of languages to=20
justify whatever without taking the number of speakers into account.

totus

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