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Re: [lojban-beginners] days of the week
I'll try to be rational. I feel, that the talking of the "day of week", is not rational; we are talking about the events, that taking place at that day, not the day itself. So, we'll find, that the most rational scheme for naming that is "de'i li D:J:M:N" or "de'i li N:M:J:D" modulo the choice of ":".
Would we have the nice calendar, with months starting at the same day of week, we'd used "de'i li no" for that day. Good choice of ":" would allow us to address the rest of the needed places. Plain "pi'e" gives "de'ipi'epi'emy" for the month, which isn't nice. "de'i li D xi J pi'e M pi N" is a bit better, so, "de'i li pi N" refers to the year, "de'i li pi'e M" to the month. The problem is the unnatural use of "pi", that can be fixed with the reversed order: "de'i li N pi M J D". That way, we can skip the rest of the delimiters, saying MJD part fits in just 3 digits. Than we again need some shortcut for the day, for example "de'i li ji'i pa".
Adopting such a system to our strange calendar is straitforward: write the day of month with radix 7, considering the least significant digit to be "day of week" if the "week" digit is missing or is vague.
Now, for those of us, that want to be natlangish, we can derive the most rational scheme of day/week/month naming: "la [ de'i [ li ] ] (PA+)". with dotside, or la (PA+)(d|j|m) without.
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