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My favorite part is that they designed a new calendar system where the months are named starting at one (Primilis, Secundilis, etc.) but numbered starting at 0.
by Skeime 3y ago
My favorite part is that they designed a new calendar system where the months are named starting at one (Primilis, Secundilis, etc.) but numbered starting at 0. So Primilis is month 0, Secundilis is month 1, and Decilis is month 9. This somehow feels even worse than our current system where there’s a shift of 2 in the other direction for September to December.
They also claim that this is useful when dealing with quarters despite their number of month not being divisible by 4. (Admittedly, it works on the level of weeks.)
- demondemidi 3y agoWhy even name the months?
- vorticalbox 3y agoFor conversation, "last October" is easier than "last month 10"
- demondemidi 3y agoNo it isn’t. If they were named Blorple and Frotz it would be harder than 10. Only because you’ve had your lifetime to learn the order of the Gregorian months is it in any way easier.
- captn3m0 3y agoDay:Month::Number:Word makes for an easier pattern recognition. It’s the same DD/MM ambiguity problem, but using DD/OCT solves it quite well in conversation and otherwise.
- demondemidi 3y agoOnly because you’ve been trained your life to know the order. Plus the words don’t even sort.
- Juliate 3y agoThey don't sort... in your language, or how you call them. So what?
- demondemidi 3y agoHaving dates (month names) that sort is great if you are a programmer. Otherwise, so what indeed.
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- ithkuil 3y agoFunny you say that since October started off as meaning the 8th month.
- croisillon 3y agooctober is still a month "name", like decilis, not just "the 8th month"
- ithkuil 3y agoIt is a name now, but originates from an adjectival form of the latin number eight "octo"
- wodenokoto 3y agoJapanese gets away with doing that. So does Chinese - They even give the weekdays numbers. People will adapt and start to think of it as nouns, if you introduce it wide enough.
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