Re: [lojban] An alternative day-of-week list

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 16 November 2011 14:51:36 M.Nael wrote:
> Coi rodo
>
> I'm sorry I've been of the grid lately, but I haven't forgotten what I was
> working on; it's just I got caught in other things...
> I'm here to (quickly) propose a new listing for the days of the week in
> Lojban:
> Why not have the week start with Saturday? In Egypt (and in Islam
> generally), the week ends on Friday, so Saturday would serve well as the
> first day of the week if we count Friday as the week end in Islamic
> culture. For western cultures, of which I'm only aware of what I read in
> stories, ie. Monday is the first work day... Saturday would still do well,
> if we count that you take your holidays the first thing in the week, much
> like the relief (or pain?) that you get with your paycheck at the start of
> the months ;)

We don't need another one. We already have three (numbers, with two words for 
Sunday; East Asian derived; colors). I don't know of any natlang with more 
than two (Portuguese-Galician has two, of which Portuguese uses one and 
Galician the other). The East Asian sequence (soldei ce'o lurdei ce'o fagdei 
ce'o jaudje ce'o mudydei ce'o jimdei ce'o derdei) doesn't have an intrinsic 
start of the week.

I looked up the Arabic names of days of the week; they all match the Hebrew 
names except for يوم الجمعة, for which the Hebrew is יום ששי (sixth day). 
Sunday doesn't look like it matches but it does (ri'shon, first, is no 
cognate of echad, one). So in Arabic, as in Hebrew, Sunday is the first day.

Pierre
-- 
La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

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