Re: [lojban-beginners] days of the week

["A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>]

> 
> On Tuesday 25 January 2011 08:59:22 A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
> > With due respect to Pierre, janvari, frebuari etc just
> > introduces an anglo-bias into Lojban that will simply
> > turn off potential non-anglo lojbanists.
> >
> > jbovlaste already has pavmasti, relmasti, cibmasti etc
> > which seem to be just fine and consistent with
> > pavdei, reldei etc for days.
> 
> "listopad" has a hemisphere bias, as do other non-Latin and non-number names 
> of Gregorian months. "pavmasti" would collide with non-Roman calendars, in 
> which the first month is at different times of the year. As the Gregorian 
> calendar is the fourth version of the Roman calendar, 

Yet the Roman calendar is used just about all over the world.  Note that, even 
though the traditional Chinese and Japanese New Years do not coincide with the 
Western New Year, Jan 1st is now celebrated in both China and Japan.

> I thought it fitting to 
> take the names of the months from Latin, though the forms of the words are 
> taken from various languages ("ianvari" is from Russian, "madjio" is from 
> Italian) or from no particular language. A quick check of Wiktionary shows a 
> large plurality, possibly a majority, of languages using Latin-derived words 
> for month names.
> 

But I don't think you should equate languages with only a 'few' speakers 
to languages with 'many'.  My guide (for fu'ivla, say) always is the weighted 
vocabularies of Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi, Spanish and Russian - 
which of course is what were used to derive most gismu.  

totus

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