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Well, since Saturday and Sunday are called "weekEND", so it logically follows that Monday is a "week start". Most people think about it like this: Monday is a s
by 988747 4y ago
Well, since Saturday and Sunday are called "weekEND", so it logically follows that Monday is a "week start". Most people think about it like this: Monday is a start of a new work-week, and then you get two days of rest at the end of the week.
- ethanbond 4y agoBut there are two ends of any line, one on each side. Not two ends, both of which are on the same side.
- layer8 4y agoIn a ring buffer, you have a start and an end pointer, not two end pointers.
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoIf we think of it like iterators in C++, though, begin() is Monday, and end() is the next Monday.
- bombcar 4y agoExactly. A sausage has two ends, the beginning end and the end end, and so shall the week
- int_19h 4y agoThen it'd be called "weekends", not "weekend".
- bombcar 4y agoWe don’t call it “nights” even though one is split over two days (before midnight and after).
- int_19h 4y agoJust call it "evening" if it's before midnight. That way you get four nicely subdivided periods. 00-06 - night 06-12 - morning 12-18 - afternoon 18-24 - evening Would need to refactor the name of "midnight" tho to minimize confusion. But if we use it as a starting point to count hours in a day from, it doesn't make sense to simultaneously designate it as a middle of anything. (BTW, such subdivision is actually common in many places of the world.)
- Quekid5 4y agoI feel we've just rediscovered why appeals to grammar[0] don't actually solve much of anything. (Not saying you're appealing to grammar, just that grammar is generally not that useful for discerning... anything really.) Anyway, to be a bit more substantive: What really baked my noodle when I was younger is the fact that the seasons and the night/day cycle are much more disconnected than it appears when you live on Earth. Of course, it makes sense when you understand the tilt/rotation thing, but still... it really weirds me out sometimes. [0] English in this case, but any language, really.
- remram 4y agoThat only applies to things that are not obviously oriented. No one would try to argue that when they said "we'll do a recap at the end of meetings", what they meant is both the start and the end. This is not ambiguous at all and I don't even believe you believe in this argument.
- ethanbond 4y agoWell I’d suggest the “obvious” orientation is actually the effect of what you believe the words to mean, not the cause. This is what I was taught, I do indeed think it’s pretty silly, but it wouldn’t even be in the top 100 weirdest things about our language/culture/norms “space.” We’re surrounded by idiosyncrasies!
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