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    When I was learning english as an inmigrant kid, I was like: why the fuck do they name the months

    Because in Chinese, it was just numbers:

    • January --> 一 1st Month
    • October --> 十 10th Month
    • December --> 十二 12th Month

    月 = Month

    And the characters before are just a number

    Simple

    (Omg I did it again, I went on a rant about language… 🙃)

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        When the calandar is sus

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                    ⬛🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛
                  ⬛🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛
                 ⬛🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
                ⬛🟥🟥🟥⬛🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛
              ⬛🟥🟥⬛🟪🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜🟦⬛
          ⬛⬛⬛🟥🟥⬛🟪🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬛
        ⬛🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥⬛🟪🟪🟪🟦🟦🟦🟦🟪⬛
        ⬛🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥🟥⬛🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪⬛
        ⬛🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
        ⬛🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛
        ⬛🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛
        ⬛🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛
        ⬛🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛
        ⬛🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥⬛
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              ⬛🟥🟥🟥⬛⬛⬛⬛🟥🟥🟥⬛
              ⬛🟥🟥🟥⬛    ⬛🟥🟥🟥⬛
              ⬛🟥🟥🟥⬛    ⬛🟥🟥🟥⬛
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      Tbh, I was kinda disappointed about this when learning Japanese. (Am from Europe where probably all languages have named months.) The days of the week had these fancy names but months were just “[number] month”. If you name weekdays, why not name months?

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      Numbered months should be much easier, but man my brain just can’t vibe with it

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        In Czech we have:

        after no work
        second (archaic)
        middle
        fourth
        fifth
        Sabbath
        no work

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        • 星期一 --> (Day of the) Week: 1 (Monday)
        • 星期二 --> (Day of the) Week: 2 (Tuesday)
        • etc…
        • except Sunday, which is:
        • 星期天/星期日 (Sunday) (日 = Sun ; 天 = Sky ; Both are interchangeable in the context of days of the week)

        星期 = Week, but if you add a number after it, its not Week 1, but 1st day of the week

        Week 1, Week 2, would be:

        • 第一个星期 --> First Week
        • 第二个星期 --> Second Week
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          Sunday is actually the first day of the week. This is the the reason Wednesday is in the middle of the week and is called “Mittwoch” (Middle week) in German.

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            Achtually, it depends on the country. Wednesday is still in the middle of the work week if you start on Mondays

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            Well from some countries’ point of view, Monday is the first day of the week.

            I mean, the word we use to describe Saturdays and Sundays is Weekend (周末), so it actually makes sense for Monday to be the first of the week.

            Btw, Calandar apps have this option in settings:

            Which has a dropdown menu of options:

            Apparantly, some countries use Saturday as the first day of the week? 🤷‍♂️

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              I prefer Monday as well, but “end” doesn’t always mean “last point in a series”. it also means the furthest point of something, but could be on any direction, hence “both ends” is a thing. so weekends can mean the two days on either side of the week, Sunday being first and Saturday being last.

              I know that Arabic also has numbers for most days, 1 for Sunday, all the way to 5 for Thursday, but instead of 6 and 7 they named Friday “congregation” (the day Muslims congregate to pray together) and Saturday “sabbath” interestingly enough.

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                But wouldn’t it have to be called “weekends” for your explanation to work?

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                  probably. but then weekends as we say today would have to be called weekendses.

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                But a weeks ARE a series of days, and thus have a beginning and an end. A stick can have two ends, a week has a clear beginning. And it’s on Monday.

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            Sunday is the first day for those who inherited Saturday as a holy day.

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            I’m in Finland, the week starts at Monday, Wednesday is “keskiviikko” (mid-week), and I always thought it was called that because it’s in the middle of the work week. Because naming the middle of the work week is very important, and nobody gives a damn about the calendar in the weekend, because it’s time to chill.

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            The reason Mittwoch is called Mittwoch is that missionaries thought “Wodansdag” is just a little to bit on the nose pagan.