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Re: OT: META: messages (was: Re: Religious Development WAS: Re: OT: Socialism (WAS: Re: Saving endangered langs (was Re: Extrapolating languages))

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 24, 2003, 7:22
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:20:54PM +0200, Steg Belsky wrote:
> Anyway, since the original message had some kind of question about > conculture holidays, here i'll repost something i sent to ConCulture > last Rokbeigalmki New Year, about half a year ago:
Thanks! So what's ConCulture? Another mailing list?
> This year is somewhat interesting in that it's got 14 months.
! 14 lunations is over 413 days. That's a darn long year!
> which includes Dzu"Fa"Ri
What do the double-quotes signify?
> month of the year (Jalág) before New Years Day and the first of the new > year (Ghalúb) afterwards. The Ghalúb we are in now (Dzu"Fa"Ri is the > 1st day of Ghalúb) is only about a week long, so when you count the > months until next Dzu"Fa"Ri you find that there are 14 months.
Oh, I see. Dzu"Fa"Ri splits the lunation containing it into two "months". That should still only add one month, though, taking the total to 13; does the 14-month count include the intercalated Yápleg, meaning that common years have only 13 months? -Mark

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Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>Months and Lunar Cycles (was: [CONLANG] META: messages (was: Re: Religious Development WAS: Re: OT: Socialism (WAS: Re: Saving endangered langs (was Re: Extrapolating languages)))