From: "Yoon Ha Lee" <yl112@...>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> > Daniel44 <Daniel44@...> writes:
> > > I want to name each month after an animal, flower or plant significant
to
> > > each one of the major cultures of the world, and preferably with some
> > > relation to the month itself. So, if there is a particular flower in
China
> > > that blossoms in May and is special to the Chinese culture, I might
like to
> > > consider naming the month of May after this flower's name (translated
into
> > > Uusisuom of course!)
> > >
> > > As for days of the week, any similar ideas/suggestions?
> >
> > If it's supposed to be simple to learn, give them numbers. Mandarin
Chinese
> > does that.
[snipf]
> I vote for numbers as well.
Isn't it so that the first day of the week is Sunday in America but Monday
in European countries? [So print media leads me to believe.]
If so a [global] day-by-number system would either have to resynchronize the
week or end up looking odd, like how we call the twelfth month the tenth
['December']..
*Muke!
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