Re: CHAT: The Elven (or Techian) calendar
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 6:32 |
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--- Danny Wier wrote:
> This is more a concultural item than a conlang, but the conlang part
> obviously is what nomenclature to use for days, months, years and any other
> calendary measurement of time.
And what about the days? Are they subdivided into 24 hours, every hour
subdivided into 60 minutes, etc.?
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 :)))
Jan
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