From slobin@ice.ru Tue Oct 31 05:38:45 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: slobin@ice.ru X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 31 Oct 2000 13:38:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 26077 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2000 13:38:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Oct 2000 13:38:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO feast.ice.ru) (213.128.193.50) by mta3 with SMTP; 31 Oct 2000 13:38:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (slobin@localhost) by feast.ice.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id QAA19028 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:38:38 +0300 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:38:38 +0300 (MSK) To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: weekday names In-Reply-To: <39FE895A.324B@math.bas.bg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Cyril Slobin On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski 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. > Or how about the Chinese/Japanese element mapping?: Moon-Day, > Fire-Day, Water-Day, Wood-Day, Metal-Day, Earth-Day, Sun-Day. Even less-known. I believe official lojban policy should be numbering days (one for monday, zero or seven for sunday) and months, and for fiction and poetry metal or color-based weeks (both by Michael Helsem) are appropriate. After all, Michael writes most of the fiction and poetry in lojban these days [zo'o]. I see nothing wrong in the fact that tradition is not widely known now. Learning something that is meaningful outside lojban community is much more appealing than learning arbitrary made ad hoc assigments. BTW, I have known metal tradition, but color tradition is new for me. A piece of tasty information... -- Cyril Slobin