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Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: A suggestion for the Lojban names of weekdays and months.
> Personally, the more I think about it, the more I'm loving gejyspa's skadei
> suggestion. <after typing out a long paragraph with sentences starting with
> "additionally" and "also" etc... I've opted for bullets>
>
> It has the sequential nature that a rational logical system should have.
> It's very flexible for different calendars to invent new day words
> without necessarily conflicting with other calendars by adding more fine
> grained color words for more days to a week or more broad color words for
> fewer days.
Umm no. Much as I'm proud that you like my suggestion, that will NOT work, for the same reason as the original question of xorxes (paraphrastically "Isn't it confusing for cultures who use the different numbering schemes?"). If we all agree that today is xundei, then what is 9 days from now? The 7-day weekers will say "peldei, while the 9-day weekers will say "xundei". Standards are standard for a reason. My aim was to establish a standard that doesn't conflict with already existing cultural standards. And really, is there much variation in week length around the world currently? It seems that except for the 25 million Igbo's traditional 4 day week, we aren't stepping on many currently-extant calendrical toes here. And also (I say, tongue-in-cheekily), with the widespread availability of colored printers, monitors and copiers, we can save room in dates by saying, for example Oct 9, 2010 instead of "Wednesday, Oct 9, 2010" :-)
Really, is there anything wrong with universal standards? That's why we have timezones, airport codes, radio frequency etc. etc.
--gejyspa
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