Re: [lojban] days of the week

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday 29 March 2010 15:28:15 Robin Lee Powell 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.

Mardi is Tuesday, not Wednesday; jeudi is Thursday. Wednesday would be "djedi 
pe la merkurius."

Pierre
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