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

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 24, 2001, 18:30
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Peterson wrote:

> In a message dated 4/24/01 8:18:24 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes: > > << Knowing for instance that the colour of mourning is black in > Western societies but white in many Eastern societies, it may be difficult > :)) >> > > It is? I didn't even know times of day had colors...
White is the mourning color in a lot of Eastern societies, though I think something like maroon is a mourning color for one which I can't remember. OC white became "default" adult-clothing color traditionally in Korea, possibly because of the insanely long mourning periods (upward of 3 years). YHL