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

Daniel44wrote:
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>Hi all,
>
>I am currently in the process of developing the calendar for the Uusisuom
>language.
>
>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?
>
>Kossi (thanks!)
Hey, there's a grand total of twelwe months. Who's volunteer for picking the
twelve major cultures of the world? Not me, rest assured.

If you're open for some hopefully helpful criticism, I'd say drop the
representativeness idea, and just pick what you like. I would think a such
approach would give a more "harmonious" and pleasing result.

BTW, are you going on Northern or Southern Hemisphere seasons? Or even a
mix? The later would, I should think, give a very original result ...
From the practical auxlang POV, Northern ones are probably to be prefered -
a large majority of potentail speakers live on the Northern Hemisphere, a
fact that likely won't change during this geological era.

                                                           Andreas
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