--Agreed. The counter-argument, of course, being �starting the cycles from a moving point might not be acceptable to other cultures�.
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Just one of those things.
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From: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com [mailto:lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Luke Bergen
Sent: 26 January 2011 14:04�
Being completely honest and serious for a moment... your idea was my favorite gejyspa. �I'm not sure why people didn't take it seriously. �I think one of the complaints was "but it's still starting the cycles at a constant spot so it might not be acceptable for some cultures" to which I say "well, it has to start somewhere and yes, sometimes learning a foreign language is difficult".
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.�Sorry, I'm still campaigning for my color based system
http://groups.google.com/group/lojban/msg/a2d5fd068451d768
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