Re: [lojban] days of the week

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 01:27:23PM -0600, Jonathan Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
>> rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:31:20PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>> > > Michael Everson scripsit:
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week-day_names#East_Asian_Seven_Luminaries
>> > >
>> > > Long and long and long ago, my children, when I was writing a
>> > > diary in Lojban, I dated the pages with "djedi pe la mars."
>> > > for Wednesday and "djedi pe la iovem." for Thursday.
>> >
>> > ".iovem."?
>> >
>>
>> Jove, or Jupiter, I'm guessing, as the equivalent deity as Thor.
>
> Except not; Jove ~= Odin, Ares ~= Thor.
>
> Hence the question.

John was obviously following the Romans, not those barbaric Germanic tribes. :)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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