Re: [lojban-beginners] days of the week

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

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>pavdei, reldei, etc... are kinda hard and counterintuitive for portuguese 
>speakers (and maybe other languages, I don't know). Monday is "segunda-feira" 
>(second) in that language. Sunday is "primeira-feira" (first), etc..

Interesting.  But I have just found out that the beginning of the work week in 
China, India and even muslim Indonesia is Monday.  So pavdei for Monday 
still seems the most reasonable option.
>
>Can someone link me to the previous discussion, I can't readily find it by 
>googling...
>Thanks.
>
>--- On Tue, 1/25/11, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
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>>From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
>>Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] days of the week
>>To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com
>>Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 7:42 AM
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>>On Monday 24 January 2011 16:24:31 xaujbes cindustus wrote:
>>> coi ro do
>>>
>>> Is there a standard list for sunday through saturday? A while ago I used a
>>> word I got from the Lojban for Beginners workboook for 'monday' and the
>>> fluent speakers who responded didn't know what I was talking about, so I
>>> checked the dictionary, and it gave me a different set of words than what
>>> LoB told me. And then just now someone used mudydei in an email which I
>>> took to be a day of the week but not (if I recall correctly) the one listed
>>> on the dictionary site.
>>
>>There are two: (soldei, lurdei, fagdei, jaurdei, mudydei, jimdei, derdei) and 
>>(nondei, pavdei, reldei, cibdei, vondei, mumdei, xavdei, zeldei). So there 
>>are three words for Sunday, the choice between "nondei" and "zeldei" based on 
>>whether you start the week with Sunday or Monday.
>>
>>There's a natlang (past and, for reintegrationists, present) with two lists of 


>>days of the week, namely Portuguese-Galician.
>>
>>As to the months, I used to use "celma'i" and the like, but now think those 
>>should be astrological signs, not calendar months. For the calendar months, I 
>>use (ianvari, frebuari, martio, prilio, madjio, djunio, djulio, avgusto, 
>>septembero, oktobero, novmbero, decmbero). Months used in previous versions 
>>of the Roman calendar include (mercedonio, kuintili, sektili).
>>
>>Pierre
>>-- 
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