Re: [lojban] Re: detcartu la renonoxanan.

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

Go beyond the words to look at the things: What
day is it in the next country over that uses one
of the other naming device? What day do
Christians go to church, Jews to synagogue,
Muslims to maosque?  And so on. (most numerical
systems provide other clues -- someting religious
for Sunday rather than just 1 or 7, for example,
or for Saturday.

--- Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:34:35PM -0300, Jorge
> Llamb?as wrote:
> > On 9/9/05, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Do their names for the days correspond to
> monday, tuesday, etc,
> > > in an obvious fashion?  If not, I'd say
> it's totally irrelevant.
> > > If so, I'd like documentation, please.
> > 
> > 
> > See:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_week>
> > 
> > Look at the Japanese and Korean names and
> compare with the ones
> > proposed for Lojban.
> > 
> > Hebrew, Portuguese, Icelandic, Estonian,
> Polish, Russian, Chinese
> > and Church Latin use numerical, but some
> start with Sunday = 1 and
> > others with Monday = 1
> 
> 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?
> 
> -Robin
> 
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