Re: [lojban] days of the week

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Whatever happened to the "let a thousand flowers bloom" philosophy?

Anyway, I'm sure the reasons for the
soldei/lurdei/fagdei/jaurdei/mudydei/jimdei/derdei names of the wek
(which were not my idea, but which I like) have been given before.

One reason is that given the place structure of "djedi", the natural
meaning for N-dei is "x1 is a period of N days", as in "pavyvondei"
for "x1 is a fortnight", "ko'a djedi be li pavo".

Of course we can ignore that and define lujvo as we please, but that's
one sensible reason anyway.

Another reason is that there are at least two different systems used
in different languages that relate numbers to days of the week. In
Portuguese, "segunda-feira" is Monday, not Tuesday. (Similarly in
Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Indonesian, Turkish, and others).

We can say: we don't care, let those people be confused, why should we
be forced to learn seven new words when we already know the Lojban
numbers and obviously Monday is day 1? And besides, Chinese is on our
side, which is the language spoken by the most people anyway. (Or
maybe those people would not be confused, I don't know, I only know
that the Portuguese day names do confuse me, so maybe the converse is
true too.)

Anyway, those are my reasons for preferring the soldei series. (And
yes "soldei" is nice for English speakers too, that's not
automatically malglico)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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