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- From: siobhan@microsoft.com (Siobhan Harper)
- Subject: Re: [week] Re: Weekdays in other languages (was: ... Latin?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov04.191634.18686@microsoft.com>
- Date: 04 Nov 92 19:16:34 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Nov2.130010.1364@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <aardvark-021192130033@146.154.24.95> <1992Nov3.195527.24256@efi.com>
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- In article <1992Nov3.195527.24256@efi.com> dchung@efi.com (Daniel Chung) writes:
- > Is it not wonderful that the whole world use the same schedule of
- >"weeks"? I think that the "week" is more popular and more important than
- >Roman months, Chinese months, or even my "equinoxal months".
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- > Then Latin and Chinese miss by one. In Chinese, we use "star period
- >sun" for Sunday (alternatively "star period day" or "worship sun" or "worship
- >day") and use "star period one" to "six" for the rest of the week.
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- Consider the Cambodian week: (in a _very_ rough transliteration)
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- tngay can (day of the moon)
- tngay angkia (day of Mars)
- tngay put (day of Mercury)
- tngay prahoeh (day of Jupiter)
- tngay sok (day of Venus)
- tngay sau (day of Saturn)
- tngay aathit (day of the Sun)
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- These names aren't a result of the French colonization; they predate them
- by quite a while. Yet they are the same planets, in the same order, as the
- Western week. The link is the Babylonian and Hindu astronomers; the names
- went east from India and west from Babylonia, along with the concept of a
- seven-day "week".
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