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



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.

  Precisely because of cultural associations (the Sabbath is defined
as the seventh day in the Bible) and Hebrew language associations (the
first six days are numbered, with the seventh day being "The
Sabbath"), I get confused and dislike the fact that the lojban day
numbering system starts with Monday.   However, I accept it as the
price of "cultural neutrality  (*coughcough*)".  Accepting a
different, conflicting system of doing something is part and parcel of
learning a new language/culture (and at least it's not as
potentionally lethal as remembering which side of the road to drive on
as you leave the Chunnel in either direction (unless of course, you
are, say, scheduling trains to run on certain tracks on certain days
of teh week, or similar)) And I certainly don't hate it as much as I
do the non-numerical day system, because there is no way in heck I
coulde ever remember those seven days.  At least numbering is
rational.
                 --gejyspa

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