On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Stela Selckiku
<selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:
Since we're back on weekdays, going around the same arguments as
usual, I thought I'd try proposing something new. Numbers are
arbitrary, and there exist several contradictory systems in the world
so they could be confusing. The cimjvo we borrowed from Japanese or
whatever are just as arbitrary to most Lojbanists, and many people
feel they violate our longstanding (if rarely achieved) goal of being
za'e klunu'i (kulnu zei nutli, culturally neutral). So here's an
entirely different idea:
Let's make new lujvo for the weekdays (and perhaps months, etc) with
meaning in Lojbanic culture. We could simply choose things to do on
the various days of the week, and name the days for what we've decided
to do on them! Then the seven names of the days of the week won't
just be some arbitrary facts to learn, but rather important meaningful
facts that will tie new Lojbanists closer to our culture, and that
will enrich and deepen our culture.
Here are a few random ideas I thought of, just to prime the pump.
Back when I was doing the .jefnuz. project, I was putting out the
weekly news on the same day every week, I think it was Sunday. So we
could restart a weekly news project, and the day the news came out
could be known as za'e "nuzdei" (nuzba zei djedi, news day). Another
random idea: We could have a day for acting silly, and call it za'e
"bebdei" (bebna zei djedi, fool day).
Anyone else have an idea for a Lojbanic weekday?
mi'e
la stela selckiku
mu'o