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Re: CHAT: The Elven (or Techian) calendar

From:Jake X <alwaysawake247@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 19:48
>From: wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> >Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> >To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU >Subject: Re: CHAT: The Elven (or Techian) calendar >Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:53:40 +0000 > >Jan van Steenbergen nevesht: >>Interesting stuff to think about. I've always wondered where weeks come >>from. >>Most time units have some sort of natural background - days, years, >>months, >>even seconds. But weeks? They don't fit within either months or years. A >>conculturer who would come up with something like that would probably be >>criticized heavily. >>Probably just an invention of long-ago trade unions :))) >> >Actually, astrology. >The seven days from the seven planets, the order from the outside in >(geocentric) for each hour, the days named by the planet of the first hour >of the day. > >-Wayne Chevrier >
I heard something about how much more sense it would make if we just had 35 ten day weeks a year and five days of some kind of new year celebration. The problem with any calendar system is that it tries to make a correlation between three distint phenomena: Earth's rotation (day), the cyces of the moon (month), and Earth's orbit around the sun (year). The three things, originating from multiple time systems, just aren't scientifically related. I think that anyone making a conculture should just trash that whole system and start afresh. If it takes place on an 'alien' world, perhaps make a more even system that divides better. For example, 360 days/year and 36 days/ month, with ten months. Our calendar is not a convention anyone needs to put very much weight in. Jake ~Patient is the procrastinator.~ _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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