On Thursday, July 02, 2015 15:19:34 Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> On 7/2/2015 2:53 PM, Michael Turniansky wrote:
> > Bob, it's true that ISO-8601 set the standard as Monday as first
> >
> > day, but that's not culturally neutral.
>
> It is still the *international standard*. Creating anything else might
> be more "neutral", but it won't be consistent with the international
> standard. And we decided long ago that international standards trump
> cultural neutrality. Which is also why we ruled out playing games with
> time-of-day which has at least as many problems as weeks.
>
> The metric system isn't culturally neutral either (obviously biased
> against Americans %^( ). But we still decided to put all the metric
> units and prefixes in the gismu list.
All the base units (except the kilogram, because it has a prefix), but many
derived units are not in the gismu list.
Languages differ as to which day of the week is called by which number. As far
as I know, they don't differ as to which day of the week is named for the sun
or the moon. What the rest are called in languages that call a day for the
moon does differ, but there is some historical connection between Woden,
Mercury, and water. And there's no obvious reason to put the sun first in the
circular order (sun, moon, fire, water, wood, metal, earth).
More later, maybe, and an update on jbonunsla. I have to go out and look for
property corners.
Pierre
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