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

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.
Agreed.  I still run into references to, oh, various Western plants or
foods that I have no idea what they are.  It's hard to learn the name of
a plant when you can't figure out what it looks like or is or anything.
And heck, it's frustrating even to read references to *Western* names for
Korean plants, and to know that I most probably know the plant, but I
have no clue from the Western name (I mean, in Korea, I hear the Korean
names...) *which* plant it is.

I vote for numbers as well.

YHL

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