[lojban] Re: detcartu la renonoxanan.

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

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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