tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 17 09:46:00 1995
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Re: Callendar software -- for Klingons
- From: [email protected] (Arden R. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Callendar software -- for Klingons
- Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 09:45:55 -0700
>[email protected] (Matt Gomes) writes:
>\ Okay... now... what is jaj wa'DIch? Sunday or Monday? That's why I'm
>saying
>\ this is not as easy as it seems...
>Well, the most common usage in the U.S. is that Sunday is first; throughout
>most of the rest of the world, Monday is first. I'd therefore say that Monday
>wins by the sheer weight of numbers. :)
[snip]
and marqoS writes:
>To provide an analogous Terran example, Japanese has no names for the days of
>the week, only numbers; and the 'first day' is Monday.
But Modern Greek, Portuguese, and Armenian, all of which make use of
numerical weekday names, begin the count with *Sunday*.
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