On 6/29/2015 9:00 AM, Michael Turniansky wrote:
je'e .i ku'i ca lo nu so'a le me lu la'o gy Monday gy se cmene zo
pavdei li'u bende cu pante keikuko na xusra lo du'u mi na kajde do lo
si'o kulnu zaznalnu'i va'u ii
--gejyspa
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org
<mailto:phma@bezitopo.org>> wrote:
On Friday, June 26, 2015 11:55:20 Michael Turniansky wrote:
> We never really established it, but as I said in the original email
> proposing the the thing
>
>https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban/ja_mbMiAt4A/aNdRhAb91aIJ) :
> > I suggest for the sake of cultural neutrality, making the cycle start
> >
> > so that zirdei be Tuesday, since I was born on Tuesday and purple is
> > my favorite color. If I was culturally un-neutral, I'd say xunday [sic] is
> > Sunday, since that's the "start" for both cycles..
>
> Since these words never entered the dictionary, or had any other
> officialness, I used my suggestion and start with purple on tuesday...
Setting zirdei to Tuesday because that's your favorite color and
birthdate is
like making a gismu for "smoot". Lots of distances all over the
world are
measured in meters. Many distances (largely in the air) are measured
in feet.
Only one thing (a certain bridge) is measured in smoots.
Both of us agree that the first day is Sunday (and that, for religious
purposes, the week starts at the previous sunset), so I'm going to
enter them
with xundei being Sunday.
I haven't been following this discussion, so why are people discussing concocting a new system for days of the week? The original method just attached a number for the day. I get confused these days from not using Lojban enough, but I think we dealt with the issue of where to start by allowing Sunday to be zero-day (and therefore first) or seven-day (and therefore last). The international standard is that Monday is the first day of the week.
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/Any particular religion should not enter into the consideration at all. See the definition of jeftu which even allows for the possibility of other-than-seven day weeks, though the default should probably be the international standard.
Doing anything with colors or other oddball schemes is a likely to succeed as attempts to redo the months of the year, or clock times.
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