Re: [lojban] Re: a different weekday proposal

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

>> Why friday is payday?
>
>It seems to me this is not even specific to Western culture, but only to Anglo-Saxon one, where there are wages paid weekly.

Apparently not even that broad.  I get paid on thursdays and I'm a middle-class white employee in the software industry in new england.  If one's going to be malglico it seems like I'd be a prime candidate.  And it doesn't even work for me.  Would this be {malprenu}?  Bias of the individual as opposed to "cultural bias"?

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Krzysztof Sobolewski <jezuch@interia.pl> wrote:

Dnia środa, 6 października 2010 o 10:24:40 Balon_ napisał(a):

> In some cultures and countries Sunday is not restday. Sunday is
> workday.

It's a pity, because I tcetcetce nelci "niedziela" for a do-nothing day.

> partyday in Saturday is specific to western culture.

Every day is party day! ;)

> mijdei should be thursday not wednesday.

And yet "środa" (mid-day) is wednesday. Even though "czwartek" (fourth-day) and "piątek" (fifth-day) are thursday and friday, respectively. Inconsistencies in natural languages are lovely ;)

> Why friday is payday?

It seems to me this is not even specific to Western culture, but only to Anglo-Saxon one, where there are wages paid weekly.


Considering all this, I wonder: we have local major money units (rupnu), local length units (gutci), local area units (kramu), but time is measured in minutes, hours, days (OK, this is no surprise), 7-day weeks and 1/12-of-the-year months. Why?
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