Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????

En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

> In a message dated 4/24/01 12:13:56 AM, Daniel44@BTINTERNET.COM writes:
>
> << As for days of the week, any similar ideas/suggestions? >>
>
>     So as not to spurn anyone's religion, you can go back to deriving
> their
> names from the numbers one through seven (or, you can be really daring
> and
> claim there are six or eight or ten days of the week).  However, you
> might
> inadvertantly insult someone by, say, making the world's equivalent of
> Saturday the seventh or sixth day, or whatever.  As for me, I always
> think of
> days of the week in terms of colors: Monday's blue, Tuesday's white,
> Wednesday's red, Thursday's yellow, Friday's green, Saturday's orange,
> and
> Sunday's purple.  :)
>
Wow! That's a nice idea!!! (and I agree with the purple for Sunday for instance
:) ) Now, the problem for a truly international auxlang would be to find the
right colours... Knowing for instance that the colour of mourning is black in
Western societies but white in many Eastern societies, it may be difficult :))
...

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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