Re: [lojban] Re: a different weekday proposal

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

Probably because measurements of time are usually determined by events in space (earth rotating about the sun, moon rotating about the earth) and these things are globally observable.  The natural tendency then, is to come up with similar (but sometimes differently flavored) means of measuring time.  Units of measure are much more subjective and depend more on the length of your kings fore-arm ;)

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Frank <frankdmartinez@gmail.com> wrote:

On 6 October 2010 13:41, Krzysztof Sobolewski <jezuch@interia.pl> wrote:

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

Even then, only some places pay weekly.  Some places pay twice a month, once a month, or every two weeks.  Occasionally, One finds Workers paid daily.

 

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?

I realized I may have spending too much time on facebook when I started looking around for the 'like' button to mark this observation.  ;-)

mi'e xuinkrbin.

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