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Re: A funny linguistic subway experience + some questions about nouns of days and months

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 29, 2000, 21:47
En réponse à Dan Jones <feuchard@...>:

> Actually something bizarrely similar happened to me on a bus in > Bournemouth > (lots of foreign language students), I held a conversation with a > Spaniard > in a strange Italo-Franco-Hispanic Pidgin. I could have just spoken to > him > in English, but I lied and told him I was French (well, he was cute and > the > "confuzed foregner" act always seems to work...) >
Well, having spent 5 months in the Netherlands I know that very well :)) .
> > Hmm, looks like Andalucian to me. >
Well, then my guess wouldn't be that bad. Andalucian is really Southern Spanish :) .
> > SAMEDI (XIIe s.), du lat vulg. *sambati dies, comp. de dies <jour> et > sambati, gén. de *sambatum, empr. au grec sabmaton, var. de sabbaton > <sabbat>. >
Yeah, that was what Ray (I think it was Ray) said. Right now, I have in "Roumant" sambte /sa~t/ for Saturday (yes, like French, but in smaller quantity, "Roumant" has a few etymological spellings with silent letters, like here the "b").
> > Okay, that was a long post, but I think an interesting one, especially > for > other > > Conromance langs inventors. I'm now waiting for you all's replies :) . > > I've decided to keep the Classical Latin form, "saturni dies", giving > Arveunan saundí /sOn 'di/., which has a nice "faux ami" ring about it, I > think. FWIW the CL, not VL days of the week were borrowed by Brythonic > speakers, so we have de Sadorn and de Sul in cornish, from "saturn's > day" > and "sun-day" >
I was thinking of doing that too in "Roumant". In fact, I'm thinking of deriving the official forms from CL, while the popular forms will be derived from VL. Then I would do the same with month-names. But then I have the problem of the influence of the Christian Church. I don't know if it would be very likely to keep for official names pagan deities names. I would have thought that the official forms would be more influenced by the church, while the popular forms would stay more "pagan". Any thoughts? Christophe.