Re: [lojban-beginners] days of the week

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

> 
> On Tuesday 25 January 2011 10:25:06 A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Okay, considering those six (I assume one "Spanish" should be "Arabic"):
> Chinese uses numbers to name months.
> English, Spanish, and Russian all use words derived from Latin "ianuarius" 
> etc.
> Hindi month names are from English, though a couple are spelled a bit 
> differently (e.g. "Sitember"). Hindi also has names for the months of the 
> Hindu calendar.
> Arabic has two sets of names for months in the Gregorian calendar. One is the 
> Westernized set and is from Latin. The other is used in Syria; most of them 
> resemble months of the Jewish calendar and are of Babylonian origin. Arabic 
> also has names of the Muslim calendar months.
> Without bothering to figure the weights, that's 4.5 votes for words of Latin 
> origin. What's the weighted tally? How much of the Arabic-speaking world uses 
> the Westernized set?

Pierre, I wasn't arguing for having the months named according to the six main 
languages.  I had already stated my preference for {pavmasti} etc.

I did however, object to your frequent use of the number of languages to 
justify whatever without taking the number of speakers into account.

totus

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