From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Mon Oct 30 23:56:01 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: iad@math.bas.bg X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 31 Oct 2000 07:56:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 16708 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2000 07:56:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Oct 2000 07:56:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO banmatpc.math.bas.bg) (195.96.243.2) by mta2 with SMTP; 31 Oct 2000 07:55:56 -0000 Received: from iad.math.bas.bg (iad.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.88]) by banmatpc.math.bas.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA19043 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:55:31 +0200 Message-ID: <39FE895A.324B@math.bas.bg> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:56:58 +0200 Reply-To: iad@math.bas.bg Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: weekday names References: <8tkcjc+c6vg@eGroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski michael helsem wrote: > i suppose we can translate our existing weekdays back into > planets & then into the lojbanic names for their traditional > metal correspondences: Traditional but known to few these days, I'm afraid. > monday= la rijdei > tuesday= la tirdei > wednesday= la magdei > thursday= la tincydei > friday= la tukydei > saturday= la nisydei > sunday= la slodei Or how about the Chinese/Japanese element mapping?: Moon-Day, Fire-Day, Water-Day, Wood-Day, Metal-Day, Earth-Day, Sun-Day. --Ivan