Re: [lojban] Re: a different weekday proposal

[Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:
> gundei - workday (monday)
> lumdei - washday (tuesday)
> mijdei - middleday (wednesday)
> datydei - otherday (thursday)
> lejdei - payday (friday)
> sladei - partyday (saturday)
> surdei - restday (sunday)

Hey!  How come my thread has been hijacked for discussion of various
nonlojbanicculture ideas??  That's the same merry-go-round we've been
on for years.  I quoted Lindar because I do like his ideas, I think
it'd be great if we could have a "sladei", sounds like a fun day, but
unfortunately people would indeed assume it was Saturday.  What I'm
suggesting we think of is NEW ideas!  We just think of 7 different fun
things to do, and assign them randomly to days of the week.

For instance za'e "dutydei" (dukti zei djedi, opposite+day) could be a
day where you have fun doing things the opposite of how you'd usually
do them.  (In my merko culture there's an idea of Opposite Day, but it
seems to happen randomly and isn't associated with any day of the
week.)

Or za'e "badnydei" (badna zei djedi, banana+day) could be a day for
eating bananas (and dressing up like bananas and making silly shoops
of talking bananas).

We could have a za'e "dridei" (badri zei djedi, sad+day) for being sad
and a za'e "geidje" (gleki zei djedi, happy+day) for being happy.

Perhaps a za'e "pemdei" (pemci zei djedi, poem+day) for reading and
writing Lojbanic poetry.

Or how about a za'e "raftadydei" (rafsi zei tadni zei djedi,
rafsi+study+day) where we all study our rafsi.

That's my idea is that it would be easy to learn the weekday names
because we'd be doing something together on them.  You'd remember that
whichever day is pemdei, because every pemdei there'd be lots of new
Lojbanic poetry and people quoting and reciting old poems.  You'd
remember what day is raftadydei because every raftadydei people would
be quizzing each other on rafsi.  I think it's an opportunity to make
Lojbanistan a more creative and engaging space.  I think we'd have a
lot more fun on badnydei talking about bananas and telling the
nintadni it's banana-day than we will having another discussion about
why numbered days are good/bad, or why the element day names are
good/bad and how to remember them.  Doesn't anyone like my idea? :)

mi'e

la stela selckiku

mu'o

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