Re: [lojban] days of the week

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

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 03:57:08PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> 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?

I ate it.  :)

More seriously, that philosophy is nowhere to be found in the parts
of Lojbanistan I frequent (IRC, in particular).

> 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).

Interesting; didn't know that.  I do note
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week-day_names#Weekdays_numbered_from_Monday
, however (the ISO standard bit).  Not really a counter-argument as
such; just saying.

-Robin

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