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

Based on the information on that page, only one of those examples of other-than-7-day weeks is in use today, that being the Javanese 5-day one. All the others are either clearly no longer used or as in the case of the Nigerian 4-day week, ambiguous as to their current week.

In contrast, the 7-day week is used worldwide. I don't doubt it would be very difficult indeed to find a single culture on this planet that doesn't use the 7-day week - even if they also use a other-than-7-day week.

Regardless, the reason for Lojban going with a 7-day week is simple: The vast majority, if not the entirety, of the world, has 7 days in their weeks, which makes things rather simple to decide.

So, to reiterate: It ain't broke. Stop trying to fix it.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:38 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
What about those non-7-day weeks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#.22Weeks.22_in_other_calendars

There can be no consistent correspondence for the starting day of the
week unless we ignore certain calendars with different cycles.

Why would Lojbanistan choose the 7-day week? Because it's an
international standard, adopted by the ISO? Isn't that adoption on
hegemonic rather than scientific grounds? Is there any real neutral
basis for the days of the week of any traditional calendar as there
are for the length of the Earth's day or year?

I care about which day is "Monday" etc. only as long as other people
do. Personally, I would be happy to get rid of those traditional time
units and live by the days of the year: "on the 32nd ... 182nd ...
365th" (yes, no months either).

mu'o

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