Re: [lojban] la za'e filjvocedra (The Age of Easy Lujvo)

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:

Doesn't the CLL talk somewhere about how making monday be 1 works for all cultures because sunday can be day 0 or day 7. Personally that's how I remember weekday names in lojban anyway, I call sunday nondei.

I don't really care what the system is for naming days but it seems like they should be sequential in some way in stead of seemingly random names. e.g. I prefer pavmasti to vormasti

I don't know about days of the week, but I do know that Japanese uses numbers for months. I would assume that most languages use either a Roman derived system, as English does, or a Chinese(?) based system, which I believe is where jimdei comes from.

Personally, I prefer to use numbering for both weekdays and months, for the same reason I prefer the metric system. (no way! An U.S.American that prefers metric?!?! They exist?!?!) Easier to remember. (There's 16 pints in a gallon, right?)

2010/10/5 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Blargh, I can't stand {jimdei}. To me it smacks of malpo'o.

Possibly. But "mumdei" might be horribly confusing to those whose
native language's word for Thursday is something like "fifth day". A
little malzdo would be preferrable to horrible confusion.

We should ask a Hebrew, Portuguese, Greek, Georgian, Armenian,
Vietnamese, Icelandic, Arabic, Malay, Indonesian, Javanese, Sundanese,
Persian, Kazakh or Turkish speaker what they think.

> And why is {mumdei} a span of 5 days?

Because of the "mu", how many else would it be?

> According to vlasisku both mumdei and jimdei
> have the same definition (http://vlasisku.lojban.org/friday).

That's why I said if you were writing "for me". I know that "mumdei"
has been (not very thoughtfully in my opinion) defined as "Friday".

> So either
> jimdei also means "5 day period" or either one can be used to refer to
> friday.

Or only one of them could mean Friday, or neither.

> Incidentally, mi mumdeita'i ca lo reldei .oiro'e .i mi bilga tu'a ci djedi
> ji'a

.i a'o do zi cpacu lo nejni

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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