Re: [lojban] Re: a different weekday proposal

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> I do agree that it's inevitable and useful that weekdays will have
> short names, but I also think it would be nice if they had long names
> too.  Long names have a richness to them, they can hold a story.  If
> you think about it, the inevitability of well-used words being worn
> down to short forms is just as good an argument for why we should
> focus especially on making long names for things-- the short names,
> after all, will naturally take care of themselves!
>
> As to the business at hand, anyone have an opinion of which day
> xarjvectibadnydei should be?  I don't care which day it is, I'm just
> looking forward to shooping some bananas!
>
>


  I think we need a rolroibadnypeidei for you, selkik
         --gejyspa

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