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Esperanto vs others

de k1attack, 2010-majo-03

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LyzTyphone (Montri la profilon) 2010-majo-06 14:12:22

On calendar reforms, I still found the "World Calendar" more regular and to my test. Probably also because it's older and was just so close to adoptation in the League of Nations, which really reminds me of a certain language.

jan aleksan (Montri la profilon) 2010-majo-06 15:02:15

I like this one

ceigered (Montri la profilon) 2010-majo-06 15:19:08

jan aleksan:I like this one
I like it, up until it mentions the names of the months and how it uses the Northern Hemisphere system. Still a very nice looking system.

Most important though: space. It's more important that a year ends closer to when it literally does end as far as Earth and the sun are concerned. Human agriculture, horticulture, space travel, all of it needs accuracy. What's the point of a calendar if it's like looking through the refraction of water and trying to get a clear image of the sea-floor?

ceigered (Montri la profilon) 2010-majo-07 12:43:48

@ R2D2 - I suspect that might be because, as far as the western world is concerned, that's the biggest thing in religion that's happened in a while (and he's sort of a universal fellow since he is a Muslim prophet as well).

A better excuse would probably be because Jesus' birth was essentially the start of what would become Christianity, which effected the Roman Empire massively, and the Roman Empire effected Europe massively, and Europe effected the rest of the world massively (whether we like that version of history or not).

So, the best hope for a change of epoch is to wait for something big to happen, that doesn't involve nuclear bombs, world wars or anything else plain depressing. Probably the move to space would warrant the use of a new calendar system with a new epoch name like "Galactic Standard Era"... or "Universal Century", and AD/CE would probably get changed to something like "Industrial Era", etc (it's hardly a Common Era if it's no longer the current era is it?).

So, people, support your countries' space programs if you want the current epoch to change ridego.gif (or hope we find aliens or discover all the secrets of the universe or something)

Vilius (Montri la profilon) 2010-majo-07 14:09:52

ceigered:So, the best hope for a change of epoch is to wait for something big to happen
Programmers often use so called "Unix time". Its a number of seconds (sometimes event milliseconds) since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. For example right now it is 1273239097. It doesn't depend on time zones, leap years, leap seconds, calendar systems, religious nonsense, etc. Yet it's a bit uncomfortable to use. Unless you are a computer of course rideto.gif
See you at 1273325497 (that's tomorrow at the same time) sal.gif

k1attack (Montri la profilon) 2010-majo-07 15:03:19

I think Symmetry454 calendar is the best because there are 12 months a year (because of which people will easily be able to adapt to sym454). Every month has either 28 days or 35 days, which means that every month begins with a Monday and has a whole number of weeks (4 or 5). World Calendar breaks the 7-day week (by adding days outside "the week") and I find Symmetry454 more regular than World Calendar.

Concalendars are meant to replace our existing (Gregorian calendar), not just (unlike Esperanto) be used alongside it. Imagine what it would be like if different parts of the same country used different calendars!!!! CONFUSION AND CHAOS!!!!! (thank goodness almost everyone uses the same calendar, the Gregorian calendar!)

On the other hand, Esperanto's not meant to replace English and other national languages, but to be used alongside.

k1attack (Montri la profilon) 2010-majo-07 15:05:59

Speaking of change, I'm still not sure who's going to win the UK election.

Miland (Montri la profilon) 2010-majo-07 15:44:48

k1attack:Speaking of change, I'm still not sure who's going to win the UK election.
We've just elected a so-called "hung parliament", in which no party has an absolute majority. It hasn't happened since 1974! The party with the greatest number of parliamentary seats, the Conservatives (led by David Cameron) are going to try and negotiate a deal with the Liberal Democrats (led by Nick Clegg). The current Prime Minister, Labour's Gordon Brown, has said that he will be willing to negotiate with other party leaders, if those negotiations are unsuccessful.

k1attack (Montri la profilon) 2010-majo-07 18:17:22

Oh, a "hung" parliament. A party needs to have more than 1/2 of the seats. There are 650 seats, so a minimum of 326 are needed. If a party had 325, which is 1/2 of 650, then half of everyone would have voted for the party but not more than that.

There are so many parties now. The Looney Party makes fun of the word "party"! lol

Ironchef (Montri la profilon) 2010-majo-07 18:23:27

k1attack:There are so many parties now. The Looney Party makes fun of the word "party"! lol
"The Monster Raving Looney Party" have contested every general election since the 1960s. The late Screaming Lord Sutch was their leader until sadly, he took his own life a few years ago. I am glad that the sense of surrealism is still alive and well in the UK amid the crumbling of civilization around them ridulo.gif

I see that the Citizens for Undead Rights & Equality Party got a handful of votes in Brighton too. Good too see the zombies turnout.

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