From phma@oltronics.net Sat Oct 28 09:32:07 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@oltronics.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 28 Oct 2000 16:32:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 44071 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2000 16:32:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 28 Oct 2000 16:32:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta2 with SMTP; 28 Oct 2000 16:32:05 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA06352 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:31:50 -0400 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.31, neofelis, , 207.15.133.31 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 12:32:02(EDT) on October 28, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: month names Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:18:00 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <6.d42ce5f.272c4949@aol.com> In-Reply-To: <6.d42ce5f.272c4949@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0010281231440C.19535@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, pycyn@aol.com wrote: >Well, actually {la .oktobr} makes a lot of sense. As ivan points >out, numbered months are ambiguous, depending on calendar >involved and there are at least five in common usage, not to >mention dozens more that get referred to from time to time (I don't >even discount uudz kale katunob). But, so far as I can remember -- >which is not very far in this case, most places that use the western >calendar also use the month names, suitably modified in the local >dialects (enero for january in spanish, aout for august in french and >so on). I am not sure what happens in more remote (from me) >countries where the western calendar is used for civil purposes but >some other serves for reality (festivals, birthdays, ....). Several languages use other names for months. Finnish has names like syyskuu and joulukuu, Polish has listopad (pezfa'u). But naming months for seasons won't work for an international language; vi pu zi co'a pezfa'u, iku'i ca vensa fi le nanxabybolci. phma