Re: [lojban] Re: a different weekday proposal

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I might be more inclined to use them is {gejyspa} was removed from them, as
> in {zarskudei}. {zarskugejyspadei} is just way too long for me. :P

That was my favorite part about them!  I'm sick of how clajvo-phobic
we are.  (Especially since I've started studying Potawatomi, this fear
of long words has come to seem malglico to me!)  We could leave out
the "gejyspa" though when speaking hurriedly or casually and it could
just be implied.  Hmm, maybe the real full name of badnydei is
"xarjvectibadnydei" (xanri zei je zei citka zei badna zei djedi,
imagine+and+eat+bananas+day)!

mi'e .telselkik. mu'o

It's not fear. It's laziness. In /every/ language, the most used words are also the shortest. Even if we did use those names for the days of the week, it's a guarantee that they will be shortened really quickly. Weekdays are used often enough that anything more than three syllables is a waste.

On the other hand, something like "the nail of the big toe", {
  brajmadegycalku}, doesn't really come up in conversation very often, so it's perfectly fine for it to be a long word.

-- 
mu'o mi'e .aionys.

.i.a'o.e'e ko cmima le bende pe lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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