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Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systemsfromconlangs)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 16:15
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From: "Isidora Zamora" <isidora@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number
systemsfromconlangs)


> At 11:04 AM 9/16/03 -0400, you wrote: > >On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Isidora Zamora wrote: > > > > > Interrupting the week cycle is untenable. There are too many
religious
> > > people in the world for whom the weekly cycle is important to their > > > worship, and they could never just add a day to make things come out
even
> > > at the end of the year. If that sort of internatioanl standard were > > > adopted, not only would it be a different day of the month for me, but
the
> > > days of the week would no longer match up between the civil and
liturgical
> > > calendars. > > > >Was this one of the reasons that the 10-day week of the Revolutionary > >Calendar didn't succeed as well as the rest of metric system? What other > >factors were there? > > You'll need to ask a Russian (or at least someone from the former Soviet > Union)
Um, I think he was talking about the French Revolution.

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>META: Message delivery order (WAS: Re: The English/French counting system)