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

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 25, 2001, 5:40
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: > ><< 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.
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. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================