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Re: [lojban] Re: Making a jbo locale file and package for installation, need some suggestions.

On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 09:16:38 Michael Turniansky wrote:
>   Actually, there are natlangs that do use numbers.  For example, Hebrew's
> days of the week translate to first day, second day, third day, fourth day,
> fifth day, sixth day, Sabbath.  This system has been in use for thousands
> of years and still is.  (And of course is in direct conflict to the the
> nominal lojbanic system).  And it steps on the toes of anyone who equates
> the seventh day with Saturday (i.e. those form the jegvo religions).

So do Portuguese (as I mentioned earlier) and Greek, except that they have a 
non-numeric word for Sunday and, in Greek, for Friday. However, Hmong, if I 
remember right from a conversation many years ago, numbers Monday as first. 
Slavic languages (and Hungarian which borrowed some Slavic words) call Tuesday 
second, Thursday fourth, and Friday fifth, but Wednesday middle, indicating 
that Sunday would be zeroth if it had a number.

On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 09:11:42 Feilen Haksan wrote:
> I... May have missed something. Numbers are very culturally biased, because
> of course no one uses numbers. Colors on the other hand aren't because you
> made it (or it's used in China?)

The system used in Japan and Korea (Chinese uses numbers) is the fire-water-
wood system. As the Japanese write the days of the week in Chinese characters, 
it's likely that the Chinese know which day is fire-day, even though the 
Chinese use numbers.

Pierre
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