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> For the United States, where week starts on Sunday (but it is anyway considered a part of weekend) My fiancée likens the weekdays to books, and the weekends
by deathanatos 2y ago
> For the United States, where week starts on Sunday (but it is anyway considered a part of weekend)
My fiancée likens the weekdays to books, and the weekends to bookends. Books, bracketed by bookends, have two ends, one at either side.
If I ask you to "circle the ends of this line segment", you will circle two spots.
Of course, the problem with time is that it has a beginning. But the above is her logic for it.
- tobr 2y agoDoes she also say things like “Did you do anything fun over the weekends?”
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- KMag 2y agoMore likely, it goes back to the origins of our 7-day week. The ancient Romans had an 8-day week. Our 7-day week comes from the Jewish calendar, where supposedly the world was created on a Sunday, and the final day of the week is the Jewish Shabbat on Saturday. (Though, we didn't keep the Jewish calendar's notion that days start at sunset.) I suspect that if you go back far enough, most of Europe considered the week to begin on Sunday, but I have no idea how far you'd have to go back.
- pavel_lishin 2y ago> Books, bracketed by bookends Ah, yes, hence why we refer to them as the bookend.
- samatman 2y agoPerhaps there's some difference between bookshelves and weeks, such that the weekend both serves as bookends to the week proper, and is yet contiguous?