[lojban] Re: detcartu la renonoxanan.

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

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

> On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:37:58PM -0300, Jorge
> Llamb?as wrote:
> > On 9/10/05, Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > See:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_week>
> > > >
> > > 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?
> > 
> > You wait until it's Sunday and then ask a
> speaker of the language
> > in question "what day is today?" and there
> you have it. :)
> 
> But...  But... They're unrelated systems in
> different calendars!
> Couldn't the answer to that question change
> throughout the year?

What are?  There are only a half dozen or so
calendars in official use and only Western one is
recognized just about everywhere.  Of the ones in
use, most have weeks and for most of those,
Christians have figured what is Sunday (by
checking with their neighbors who use the Western
calendar if not from the local version of the
name).  Similarly for the religious day in other
traditions.  So, find out what number that is and
all the rest fall into line.  I suppose it could
be that the names of the days of the week changed
with the seasons or the months (the old Roman way
for example -- although that didn't have weeks),
but they don't -- the Babylonian model is too
firmly set, perhaps.


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