n Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Stela Selckiku
<selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a standard list for sunday through saturday?
Your answer, as evidenced by this conversation, is clearly NO. No, no
way, absolutely not, and whatever your suggestion is you can't make
me. :P Seriously, though, if you're trying to write something in
Lojban, your best chance at being understood is the numbers. No one
remembers those either, but they can count. :P
It could be discouraging, but another way to look at it is as an
opportunity. If you want a fully established and decided language,
you have thousands of choices with long, unshakable histories. Lojban
is one of your very few choices though if you're interested in a
language which both (a) has actual speakers using the language every
day to talk about things and (b) has lots of basic decisions that
haven't been firmly made. A lot of the people here enjoy being part
of an unsettled, adolescent language. It's a creative outlet. That's
what all this bikeshed painting is about.
I think it's fairly harmless. We'll probably decide somehow
eventually what weekday system is the standard, and then we'll have
something reassuring to tell nintadni. Meanwhile Lojban is
accumulating a history, a story, a richness that can't easily be
imitated. For instance, I believe what triggered your question was
someone using {jaurdei} and {mudydei} to make a joke! Even if having
a bunch of competing and abandoned day naming systems isn't
practically useful, it's a rich soil for humor, for poetry, for
culture. Lojban is one of the few languages in history to begin as a
simple conlang and grow up into a real full deep human language, and
this seemingly petty conversation is part of that growth. So try not
to be too frustrated. :)
mi'e la stela selckiku mu'o