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

At 4:48 pm -0400 25/4/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
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>
>> 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?
Very dimly.  To the Welsh, it will be strong since all but Sul & Llun are
also the names of planets.  Non-Portuguese Romance speakers may see a dim
link with Monday to Friday; but few anglophones will readily connect
Wednesday with Woden & fewer still will connect any but Saturday, Sunday &
Monday with any heavenly bodies, and only one of them is a true planet!

> 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).
The Sun & Moon are no longer planets; the earth is no longer the center
around which they are the other five wander.

We now have nine planets - but a nine-day week is too long; the seven-day
week would benefit from having a three-day weekend IMHO ;)

>After all, an IAL must have names for the planets, and their
>names are fairly international.
By those using western languages - I'm not sure how international they are
otherwise. I'm afraid in BrScr the planets are just being numbered -
mercury being Sun1 and Pluto Sun9; that makes our earth Sun3 (not sure what
to do with the moon - Sun3.1 seems a bit clumsy :)

Ray.

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