From pycyn@aol.com Mon Oct 30 11:42:05 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 30 Oct 2000 19:42:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 21187 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2000 19:38:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 Oct 2000 19:38:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r09.mail.aol.com) (152.163.225.9) by mta3 with SMTP; 30 Oct 2000 19:38:45 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.32.) id a.8.c12f9bc (4533) for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:38:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <8.c12f9bc.272f2838@aol.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:38:32 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: month 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 In a message dated 00-10-30 14:11:56 EST, maikl writes: << i would probably prefer some arbitrary 12 of the animals for the months >> Why not take the (ok, abstractly arbitrary, but culturally fixed) zodiacal animals from China. I think (but have not checked) that there are gismu for most of them. The western zodiac gets off of animals occasionally and so does not work as well. Are there other systems? (I seem to recall the Aztecs or the Mayans had a system with both plant and animal names: "4 Cane" and "5 Jaguar" stick in my mind as important for something or other).