Re: [lojban] Re: detcartu la renonoxanan.

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 9/10/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> >
> > See: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_week>
> >
> I'm sorry, I don't understand something, clearly.  If the names are
> numerical, how can we say which is associated with Sunday?  Surely
> they are completely unrelated scales about which no direct
> comparison can be made?

You wait until it's Sunday and then ask a speaker of the language
in question "what day is today?" and there you have it. :)

Besides, there is the historical connection. In Chinese the old names
were like the Korean and Japanese ones before they changed to numerical.
The Portuguese names descend from Latin names used by the Church
because the old names were associated with pagan gods. The Quakers
do the same in English for the same reason, for them Sunday is
"First Day", Monday "Second Day" and so on through to Saturday which
is "Seventh Day". (I don't know how much confusion this causes in
distinguishing the first seven days of the month from the days of the week.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes