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on 4/15/02 7:45 PM, Alexander Browne at alexbrowne@hidden.email wrote: > This is totally unrelated to anything being discussed now, but I just > remembered it. > > Ray Bergmann wrote: > >> You would avoid [the problem of when to start numbering the days of > the week] >> by using the Japanese system for the days of the week, which blends > the >> Western model with the 5 elements of Chinese: >> Sun-day, Moon-day, Fire-day, Water-day, Wood-day, Metal-day, > Earth-day. > > > I prefer this over numbered days. Numbers may be easier, but names are > more interesting I think, and numbers of the weekdays get confusing > with the date. > Sundjen, Bulandjen, Fajrdjen, Panidjen, Bawmxodjen, Gobudxanvordjen, Teradjen. Just kidding about Friday. So why not planets/gods? Or colors? How are they named elsewhere? Arabic? Hindi? -- >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/