Re: [lojban] days of the week

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:21:44PM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:15:42PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote:
> > > I saw the following on twitter:  {.i lo jaurdei cu ci moi
> > > djedi .i lo mudydei cu vo moi djedi .i li'o}.  Much to my
> > > surprise, I find that {jaurdei} is Wednesday and {mudydei} is
> > > Thursday (not to be confused with thursday, which is {vondei}
> > > and makes more sense in my mind).  What is it about Wednesday
> > > that it "water"ish?  And what is it about Thursday that is
> > > woodish?  In fact, it seems that there's an {<element>dei}
> > > form for each day of the week.  What is the origin of this?
> >
> > http://ezinearticles.com/?Japanese-Days-of-the-Week&id=278918
> >
> > Why someone imported this into Lojban I have *no* idea; do not
> > expect to find this in any published dictionary while I'm still
> > breathing.
> >
> I was pretty sure that Lojban went went with numbers for the days,
> with the ongoing argument about whether Sunday is day 0, day 1, or
> day 7?

That's the standard, yes, and the answer is "both".  No ambiguity
results, so use whichever you like.

From Lojban to English [jbo->en]:

        Word: {nondei}
        Type: lujvo
  Gloss Word: {Sunday}
  Gloss Word: {sunday}
  Definition: x1 is a Sunday of week x2 in calendar x3.
       Notes: Sunday is either day seven or day zero, depending on your
            perspective.

From Lojban to English [jbo->en]:

        Word: {zeldei}
        Type: lujvo
  Gloss Word: {Sunday}
  Gloss Word: {sunday}
  Definition: x1 is a Sunday of week x2 in calendar x3.
       Notes: Sunday is either day seven or day zero, depending on your
            perspective.

-Robin

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