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

At 5:22 am -0400 24/4/01, David Peterson wrote:
>In a message dated 4/24/01 12:13:56 AM, Daniel44@BTINTERNET.COM writes:
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><< As for days of the week, any similar ideas/suggestions? >>
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>    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.
This, in fact, the problem with numbering the days.  However, there's no
problem with months.

I did discuss exactly the same topic a year or more ago with regard to my
own project.  I shall simply number the months.  But the days of the week
will have to be named; at present I shall probably do a calque of the
Japanese names.

> 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.  :)
Interesting - and tempting to use colors - but it seems to have potential
to upset people.  Green for Friday is apt, since it's the Muslim holy day
and green is the color of Islam.  So I think Saturday needs changing -
orange is not a color immediately associated with Jews, I think - then
Sunday, yes a Christian color........

Yes - needs thinking about.

Ray.


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