[lojban] Re: days of week

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On Feb 1, 2008 3:59 PM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What are those lujvo based on?
>
> There are basically two systems used across languages: planetary and
> numerical.

I half guessed it was planetary-based, but then all the first parts of
the lujvo weren't actually planets. Where does the association between
materials and planets come from? The Japanese/Korean system? I hadn't
heard of that before reading that wiki page you linked.

Chris Capel
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