Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 24, 2001, 18:30 |
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Peterson wrote:
> In a message dated 4/24/01 8:18:24 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:
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> << Knowing for instance that the colour of mourning is black in
> Western societies but white in many Eastern societies, it may be difficult
> :)) >>
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> 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