Re: [lojban-beginners] days of the week

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

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, 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.

Pierre
-- 
Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar.

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