Re: [lojban] Re: a different weekday proposal

[".alyn.post." <alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org>]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 03:58:44PM -0400, Stela Selckiku wrote:
> 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
> 

My position on this is the same as .aionys.' position, which he
stated earlier.

I do propose, however, that on xedbig we have these event days,
because the kernel of your ideas is one I find engaging.

-Alan
-- 
.i ko djuno fi le do sevzi

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