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

Raymond Brown wrote:

> [...] our trans-Atlantic cousins still adhere to the older
> system with calendars showings weeks, as they used to in Britain when I was
> young, running from Sun. to Sat.
Wall calendars, yes.  But appointment calendars are often Monday-first,
because they use a 3 x 2 matrix of days and squeeze Sat and Sun into the
same cell.

The Quakers, who had a scruple against the use of the pagan day names,
used "First day" = Sunday and so on, though the chief surviving use is
"First day school" = Sunday school.

> If the days are named or designated in some manner like the Japanese
> system,
In that case, why not use the planetary system, which will be (dimly)
familiar to many?  It's the system I use in Lojban (though the official
system uses Monday = 1 with the special rule that Sunday may be either
7 or 0). After all, an IAL must have names for the planets, and their
names are fairly international.

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