Re: [lojban-beginners] days of the week

[Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com>]

These are all -religious- concepts putting the sabbath as the last numbered day of the week. Sadly, the secular world starts on Monday, and Lojban is a secular language. We've not arrived at a single conclusion, but we have what I've seen to be four main options.

1. Stick to the classic {pavdei} and just deal with the fact that it looks retarded ('oneday' rather than 'firstday').

2. Use the more sensible {pavmomdei}.

3. Use {pavdetri} as perhaps a more specific meaning.

4. Use some kind of naming scheme (that is not a direct translation of any natural language weekday name. Many of the existing proposals are translated from the French/English where they aren't based on the name of a God, and Japanese for those days which couldn't be taken from the former).

Unless we have some rational alternate option, I think we should vote on one of these four in a last-man-standing kind of tournament. Vote on all four, the one least liked gets dropped, rinse, repeat.

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