From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Thu Nov 02 01:07:26 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: iad@math.bas.bg X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 2 Nov 2000 09:07:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 17032 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2000 09:07:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 2 Nov 2000 09:07:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO banmatpc.math.bas.bg) (195.96.243.2) by mta2 with SMTP; 2 Nov 2000 09:07:24 -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 LAA30713 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:07:12 +0200 Message-ID: <3A013D2A.75A7@math.bas.bg> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:08:42 +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: Re: month names References: <97315033101@out.newmail.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski Adam Raizen wrote: > We could still use the western zodiac signs. It doesn't have to be > animals. The western zodiac signs are already pretty well fixed to > the months. Not really. I'm sure I've seen a different mapping in some sources. One that associates Aquarius with January, and so on. > The biggest problem is distinguishing between crabs > and scorpions in lojban. > > January la kanbyma'i > February la jaurbeima'i [...] > November la jukrskorpio masti > December la celma'i To my mind forming some month names from gismu, others from lujvo, others still from fu'ivla introduces an ugly sort of heterogeneity. --Ivan