From cowan@ccil.org Sun Oct 29 07:00:51 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@locke.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 29 Oct 2000 15:00:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 25628 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2000 15:00:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 29 Oct 2000 15:00:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta2 with SMTP; 29 Oct 2000 15:00:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA23010; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:12:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:12:31 -0500 (EST) To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: month names In-Reply-To: <6.d42ce5f.272c4949@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > Days of the week on the other hand seem to vary pretty freely, so that the > "oneday" > "twoday"... patterns seems more universalizable than any "sunday","moonday", > "thundergodday" or whatever pattern. When I was keeping a Lojban journal, I was using the pattern "Moon day", "Mars day", "Mercury day", "Jupiter day", "Venus day", "Saturn day", "Sun day". Meaning the planets, not the gods, of course. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter