From pycyn@aol.com Mon Oct 30 11:30:24 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 30 Oct 2000 19:30:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 12274 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2000 19:23:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Oct 2000 19:23:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r20.mail.aol.com) (152.163.225.162) by mta2 with SMTP; 30 Oct 2000 19:23:42 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.32.) id a.35.c1d2306 (3960) for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:23:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <35.c1d2306.272f24b5@aol.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:23:33 EST Subject: Re: calendrical names To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com Wow, this conversation is moving fast. To Robin-the-(displaced and not really anyhow)-Canuck. It is not clear, but the usual story is that the weekdays were named for the planets that were named for the gods, rather than directly for the gods. It is all iffy. And as maikl said, not kidding, alas, they ain't no seven lojban speakers -- even elf-like, let alone godlike. To xod. Right on! but then I want 12 of everything rather than these dumb 10s. Of course it won't make the year tidier -- there will still be those tags hanging around and the seasons won't be as nearly divisible into even chunks and ... (but then, teleological argument be damned, the world is not very well designed for such things). And then we would also have to come up with some number of names for months (how many, I wonder) or for the thirty weeks.