[lojban-beginners] Re: A suggestion for the Lojban names of weekdays and months.

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

> IMO "day of week" is not a kind of "-dei/djedi", but a kind of "detri". "...

=D

> at DayOfWeek ..." is "... de'i SOMETHING ...". Do we really have a "logical"
> use case for "Monday" itself, without any event to attach "de'i X" to?

Dunno, but I like that cmavo.

> Moreover, "detri" implies the cultural bias(at x4), so, we can use any
> "foreign" day of week names. And consider "de'i li PA" to be the most
> neutral way of weekday naming.

Agreed!

> And so for the month names. "January" is something near "de'i li pi'epa" (or
> pi'epi'epa, depends on x4 of detri)

Double agree!

I honestly think the x1 should change depending on the calendar.
If we're using a fixed calendar, it should be day, week, month, year.
(first day of second week of first month = 8th of Jan.) If we're using
the calendar I'm used to, probably should be either (day of week | day
of month | month of year | year) or (day of month | month | year) as
that would be "Monday the 15th of January, 2010" and "The 15th of
January, 2010" respectively.

We could also have archival dating, wherein it starts (year | month |
day) and mark that with the x4.

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