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on 4/4/02 8:43 AM, John Schilke at doc@hidden.email wrote: > From Rex, >> I have decided that I don't like zem. ... Therefore I propose mandarin > 'di' for ordinals. >> However, unlike Mandarin, I think it should be suffixed, again with the >> head-last theory, because 'second' is a kind of order or rank, not a kind > of >> 'two.'. So: >> Handixar, Dudixar, Tridixar, January, February, march, etc. >> Days of the week: >> Handidey, Dudidey, etc. >> >> Question: How to distinguish between Handidey meaning Monday, and 'the >> first day of February'? Probably with sa. >> >> Dudixarsa handisa dey. > > This sounds reasonable to me. Be sure that you decide which day of the week > is first -- Sunday, Monday?? Arbitrarily I'm following the Mandarin model and making Monday the first day. Also, tho it's not explicitly called that here in the US, most people think of it as the start of the week. Maybe the Israelis won't like it, but hey, they went along with 'common era'. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/