Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????
| From: | Fabian <lajzar@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 26, 2001, 19:12 |
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From: "Irina Rempt" <ira@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: 26 April 2001 09:31
Subject: Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > Millions of Moslems, Jews
> > and some Christians hold Saturday, most Christians Sunday, as the end of
the
> > week.
>
> Most Christians I know (those who are serious about it, not the
> nominally-Christian people who think business is more important than
> religion) hold Sunday as the *beginning* of the week, because the
> Resurrection (which made everything new) happened on the day after
> the Sabbath, that is, Sunday.
The week was obviously born in the Semitic tradition. Which raises the
question of what was the original first day of the week.
a) ...and on the seventh day HE rested... Well, the rest day is Sunday, so
day one must have been Monday.
b) Sunday is day one in most semitic languages.
c) others?
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Fabian
The human didn't notice. Did other cats have this problem with their pets?
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