[lojban-beginners] Lojbanifying the Tranquility Calendar

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

I'd be intrested in  knowing more about this fictional characters and the effects of him speaking lojban!

On Friday, August 26, 2011, DataPacRat <datapacrat@gmail.com> wrote:

> Year names:
> * BT, Before Tranquility
> * AT, After Tranquility

The first thing is to decide how render "Tranquility" that is a specific instance of an English word (and not just the translation of {tolxanka}. Anyway, we're lucky that both start with 't' :)

Let's create a fu'ivla for such important word: {trankuiliti} and let's hope someone will do better.

So for the purpose of the years, we can consider events "before Tranquility" to have happened {pu lo trankuiliti} and abbreviate it as {pyty} and events "after Tranquility" to have happened {ba lo trankuiliti} and abbreviate it as {byty}. It's unfortunate that now "bt" means exactly the opposite it did earlier, but so is life.

Now,since lerfu strings can be legally used as numbers,  12BT can be {li parepyty}  (12 in past of Tranquility) and 31AT would be {li cipabyty} (31 in the future of Tranquility).


> Individual days:

"Landing" is another word that needs some work. Jonathan suggested {stagai} which is more like anchoring/parking. I see it different from the act of "landing" which (to me) is the end on land of a travel that did not occur on land.

I could not think of anything better than {tumkla} = "x1=k1 comes/goes to destination x2=k2=t1 from origin x3=k3 via route x4=k4 using means/vehicle x5=k5".
I know, every lujvo made with {klama} seems trivial and abused, but I couldn't find of a better way to indicate a destination (after all, we don't even have a gismu for "arriving" which is simply the opposite of leaving!).  

I'm also convinced that weekdays names should be names and I like forming names with rafsi, so here are my proposals

> * Moon Landing Day   ->  {tumkladj}
> * Armstrong Day        ->  {armstrongydj}
> * Aldrin Day               -> {aldrinydj}

> Days of the week:
> * Venusday              -> {venusydj}
> * Saturnday              ->  {saturydj}
> * Solday                  -> {solydj}
> * Lunaday                -> {lunadj}
> * Marsday                -> {marsydj}
> * Mercuryday           -> {mercurydj}
> * Jupiterday             -> {djupiterydj}

>
> Months:
> * Archimedes          -> 
> * Brahe
> * Copernicus
> * Darwin
> * Einstein
> * Faraday
> * Galileo
> * Hippocrates
> * Imhotep
> * Jung
> * Kepler
> * Lavoisier
> * Mendel
>
>
> Thank you for your time,

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