On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
Ok then, remove that one bullet point. I believe there are still 4 or 5 other fine points (and one subjective one). If we're going to pick an arbitrary sequence for defining week-day names, why not color? Are numbers more sequential than colors on a spectrum? And it avoids the confusion of "5 day time interval" as opposed to "5th day".... and it isn't a cmevla or take up gismu space.Was your suggestion mostly a joke gejyspa or was there any seriousness to it?As I said in my original message...."Okay, this time, an actually SERIOUS proposal which just occurred to me..."I really think the idea is great for answering the objections of the previous two systems.--gy
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:> 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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