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

[".alyn.post." <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org>]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 01:51:35PM -0400, Michael Turniansky wrote:
>    On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:47 PM, .alyn.post.
>    <[1]alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org> wrote:
> 
>      What makes color superior to phonetic ('a', 'e', ...) progression?
>      What makes color superior to texture (smooth => rough) progression?
>      What makes color superior to temperature (cold => hot) progression?
> 
>      Or, in a single question, is color sufficiently arbitrary, or is it
>      equally arbitrary to other sensation scales? I see your argument of
>      color vs. numbers, but what is the argument for color vs. other
>      sensory progression?
> 
>      -Alan
> 
>    Ahhh... but that's the beauty of color, it's NOT a "progression". It is a
>    circle. So you don't have one culture saying "it should start on THIS
>    day", and another saying "it should start on THAT day"...
>    That objection aside, I have no preference for ANY circular, culturally
>    unbiased system. It was just the first to be suggested, as opposed to
>    number, which have a beginning and end, just like your examples, and
>    "arbitrary" substance/diety naming.
>    --gejyspa

Ah, I was thinking of color in the sense of "wavelength" rather than
color in the sense of "color wheel."

-Alan
-- 
.i ko djuno fi le do sevzi

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