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

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

Am I being spam-blocked? >_>

detri

x1 is the date [day,week,month,year] of event/state x2, at location
x3, by calendar x4.

We ALREADY HAVE that word.

It's already there. It's in existence. We don't need more words that
mean the same thing.

.i li pa lo'o detri (lo cabdei)

"Today is the first."

.i li pa pi'e ci pi'e re pi'e re no pa no lo'o detri lo cabdei mi lo
*gregorian*

Today is the first day of the third week (the 15th?) of the second
month (February?) of the year 2010 (in base dau) at my location in the
gregorian calendar.

I'm sorry to be RAEG IN THRADD!! but you guys have kinda steam-rolled
over me every time I've brought this up. You -don't- need two whole
new gismu for this when we have -one- perfectly good word that does
the job exactly how you want. If you want to discuss what exactly is
permitted in the x1 of detri (should it be "day | month | year" or
"day of week | week | month | quarter | year | additional division |
another big measurement | bollocks" or ... whatever!), then that's
totally cool, but this discussion of new gismu really doesn't need to
go any further. Trust me, there have been PLENTY of gismu suggested.
Unless you can write your entire proposal and definition in Lojban,
you're not taking up any gismu space. Feel free to petition the byfy,
but I'm vetoing.

On a lighter note, if we can move back to the topic at hand using
detri, I would love to discuss what everybody thinks is appropriate
for a calendar.

I am for weeks starting on the first business day and ending on two
non-business days with seven days each week and four weeks each month,
thirteen months to a year with a non-day at the end of the year for
the celebration of the year's end and a leap-day after June. I also
believe the year should start in spring.

I'm also for making dozenal the standard, though.

This really doesn't change the fact that most of us live by a
Gregorian calendar and use decimal on a daily basis.

If you, your people, and your country actually live and work by a
different calendar (and/or number base), I would love to know about it
so we can take into account what you're used to and blend it into what
we're doing as well as create a way to express your calendar in Lojban.

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