Finnish:
oak month (or central month if you don't use current meaning of the word)
pearl month
ground month
clearing the forest of trees for field month
planting seed month
summer month (or plowing month by original meaning)
hay harvesting month
grain harvesting month
autumn month
muddy month
death month
yule month
77 0 ReplyFinland would have a higher population if they would just get rid of Death Month.
61 0 ReplyIt's just a name, like the Forbidden Month or the Month of No Return, all the months have names like that in the Season of Terror.
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As a Scandinavian who wasn't familiar with Finish month names... Yeah, death month is a much more accurate name than November. Ugh.
17 0 ReplyFinnish month names are pretty damn descriptive. Before we had Yule Month we had Winter Month as December.
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"clearing the forest of trees for field month"
Favorite month for Amazon forest
12 0 ReplyIt was basically a month when doing slash-and-burn farming slashing and burning happened. Which seems to be August among others today.
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I'm no farmer, but shouldn't Planting Seed Month and Plowing Month be swapped? Seems like an ill-advised order of doing things.
3 0 ReplyBut if you make it thru death month you get to experience Christmas cheer! It's even colder but pretty lights!!!
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Idk why Japan is being credited for being the logical one when they simply copied the Chinese system/characters
Chinese weekdays make a lot more sense as well
70 0 ReplyAny system that does not have 13 months of 28 days each, plus a remainder day to keep pace with the sun, is not logical.
31 0 ReplyHaving a "remainder day" is weird, but it's hard to avoid. It really sucks that 365 doesn't divide nicely into much at all. 5 and 73 are the only non-trivial answers. five 73 day months? Can't even call it a month at that point.
I guess 13x28 + 1 does indeed make most sense...
15 0 ReplyThe Baha'i calendar is 19 months with 19 days, and a 4 or 5 day celebration in between months 18 and 19. The year starts the day that coincides with March 21.
9 0 ReplyIf no logical system can be created with missing information, very few systems are logical.
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Pretty much all of East Asia is a knockoff of China.
Alright, so I assume I started WWIII there, better get to my bunker. /s
27 0 ReplyNah, you didn't call it Western Taiwan, you should be good.
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What year is it, Japan?
53 0 ReplyReiwa 5, everyone knows when all the emperors acceded to the throne, silly.
51 0 ReplyIt's not like the "we thought this guy was born on this day (we were wrong)" is a great system but at least it doesn't randomly reset either like with the Japanese years
Or I hope it doesn't. Probably would mean end times or something.
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Polish:
A contacting one
Fierce
War God
A flowery one
Earth Goddess
Maggot (especially cochineal*), but also knawel
A linden one
A sickle one
A heathery one
A shives one
Leavesfall
A lump/clod one46 0 ReplyYou win.
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Romans: having 10 months in a year 2000 years before the metric system.
30 0 Replythey're so metric even their calendar is metric
15 0 ReplyThe French had 10 months for a while...
4 0 ReplyCommittee of Public Safety got to the two others. Rip
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And they're not even correctly numbered! Stupid Julius and Augustus ruined friggin EVERYTHING
Sep - 7 Oct - 8 Nov - 9 Dec - 10
28 0 ReplyAs someone else already pointed out: it was January and February that were added later. July and August just replaced the old names.
26 0 ReplyTo add for anyone that's new to this, January and February were originally considered not a real part of the year because everyone was hunkered down for the winter.
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The Romans had a 10 month calendar that started with March. Then later they added January and February to better match the lunar cycles in a year. Hence the mismatch of the numbered months.
25 0 ReplyI was under the impression that July (Julious) and August (Augustus) were the two shoehored in
15 0 ReplyNo they just renamed Quintilis (5th) and Sextilis (6th) to July and August
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I always assumed this is why the leap day is in february, since it would coincide with the end of the roman calendar
9 0 ReplyI think it's in February because it's the shortest month, and it's the shortest month because it was the last one, with all the remaining days.
The thing I'm not sure about is why some months have 30 days, some 31 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Weird that they didn't add 3 months for this reason 🤔
3 0 ReplyThey had something like ten non-month holy days that the consoles were responsible for sticking in the calendar. This traditionally corrected for the drift. In the political turmoil leading up to to ceasar, this didn't get done. When ceasar imposed the new calendar, he had to insert like 40 extra days to the first year in orderto correct this.
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English got lore
19 0 ReplyIt's always rubbed me the wrong way that Oktoberfest doesn't happen in October OR the 8th month.
15 0 Replythats because the roman year started in march and october was the 8th month in their calendar.
6 0 ReplyNaw, its cause it used to start in october but they moved it to september for better weather.
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Yeah, but try counting the days in those months
10 0 ReplyGoing to memorize the elements
Traditional week
- Sunday
- Moonday
- Fireday
- Waterday
- Woodday
- Goldday
- Soilday
But a new version just dropped:
Modernized week
- Hydrogenday
- Heliumday
- Lithiumday
- Berylliumday
- Boronday
- Carbonday
- Nitrogenday
7 0 ReplyThey're named after planets, in the ancient sense of "lights in the sky that don't stand still".
- Sunday
- Moonday
- Marsday
- Mercuryday
- Jupiterday
- Venusday
- Saturnday
4 0 ReplyOppenheimer/Einstein have entered the chat with Uraniumday
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I'm slightly mentally slow and still don't remember all of the months in a year. I'm 23 years old.
7 0 ReplySame. Which month is July again? June? What month is that? Sorry, I just can't remember the months that don't have notable events associated with.
4 0 ReplyJuly is the one with the fireworks but warm.
June is father's day ...
... Aka the month where it's finally warm enough but the mountains are still buried in snow so I still have to wait to go four wheeling.
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i did read that as "moth names"
5 0 ReplyBut then having 5 elements for weekdays.
4 0 ReplyFire, water, earth, air, Avatar state?
2 0 Replymoon, fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun
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