From araizen@newmail.net Fri Nov 03 02:47:23 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: araizen@newmail.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 3 Nov 2000 10:47:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 3199 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2000 10:47:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Nov 2000 10:47:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO out.newmail.net) (212.150.51.26) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Nov 2000 10:47:22 -0000 Received: from default ([62.0.182.139]) by out.newmail.net ; Fri, 03 Nov 2000 12:48:51 +0200 To: lojban@egroups.com Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 12:47:40 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Re: Re: month names Reply-to: araizen@newmail.net Priority: normal In-reply-to: <973177491.9543@egroups.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Message-ID: <97328453201@out.newmail.net> From: "Adam Raizen" Robert J. Chassell wrote: > The signs of the Zodiac are different from the constellations in which > the sun moves. I realize that, but for practical purposes this is the system used. The reason why it's at all appealing to use the zodiac signs is because it's a traditional system that can be translated into lojban. The important thing isn't to get the correspondence exactly right, but to give traditional names to the months. co'o mi'e adam