[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojbanifying the Tranquility Calendar

[DataPacRat <datapacrat@gmail.com>]

On Friday, 26 August 2011 09:02:19 UTC-4, cybrown  wrote:
> I can't help you with the Lojban but wanted to thank you for teaching
> me something new today. I love the Tranquility calendar.  What's up
> with the days of the week you mentioned though? The article you linked
> just calls them by their normal names (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, etc.)
> Did you make up these names?

Kind of, but not quite. :)

In most Romance languages, the days of the week are named after the seven classic heavenly bodies - the Sun, the Moon, and the five planets visible to the naked eye. When those names were exported to the Germanic cultures, some of them were fiddled with to be named after the Germanic gods that were thought to be parallel to the Roman/Greek god of that planet - warlike Tyr for Mars, communicator Odin/Wotan for Mercury, thundering Thor for Jupiter, beautiful Frigga for Venus. Since the whole point of the Tranquility Calendar is to name things after thinkers and explorers, instead of the existing calendar that was an agglutination of whatever came up, it simply seemed odd to me to retain the existing days of the week - so I simply stripped away the extra layers that had been added to weekday-names, and got back to the original astronomical references, which seemed satisfyingly sciency.

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