Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems fromconlangs)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 16:47 |
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:43:29PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> In Britain we(roughly) start on solstices and equinoxes. Spring starts on
> the 21st of March, and ends on the 20th of June.
Though this has not always been the case. And, to bring things
'round to conlang-related thigns, was clearly not the case in
Tolkein's works, since the summer solstice is called Midsummer's Day,
not Beginsummer's Day. :) Also, the Dwarvish calendar is tied to
the first moon of autumn which is clearly not the first moon after
the autumn equinox.
I think it makes more sense to regard the solstices and equinoxes as
the middles of their respective seasons, although that doesn't seem to
be the way autumn works with respect to the Dwarvish calendar either.
-Mark
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