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
As a Scandinavian who wasn't familiar with Finish month names... Yeah, death month is a much more accurate name than November. Ugh.
Finnish month names are pretty damn descriptive. Before we had Yule Month we had Winter Month as December.
"clearing the forest of trees for field month"
Favorite month for Amazon forest
It was basically a month when doing slash-and-burn farming slashing and burning happened. Which seems to be August among others today.
I'm no farmer, but shouldn't Planting Seed Month and Plowing Month be swapped? Seems like an ill-advised order of doing things.
But if you make it thru death month you get to experience Christmas cheer! It's even colder but pretty lights!!!
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
Any system that does not have 13 months of 28 days each, plus a remainder day to keep pace with the sun, is not logical.
The 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.
If no logical system can be created with missing information, very few systems are logical.
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
Nah, you didn't call it Western Taiwan, you should be good.
I just realized that about September-December, that's mindblowing and hilarious
the roman year started on march 1 so thats how they numbered months. English never caught up.
Better yet they only had 10 months, and the remaining 60ish days of the year were just 乁( •_• )ㄏ
The Roman year originally started in March (the month of Mars) because that's when the war season started. January and February were at the end of the year and originally weren't named at all.
But at some point, the Romans had a problem with one of their politicians. He had a one year term. To get rid of him, they moved the new year to January. It was supposed to be temporary but somehow we're still living with the results of that lifehack.
What year is it, Japan?
Reiwa 5, everyone knows when all the emperors acceded to the throne, silly.
It'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.
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 oneUkrainian:
- month of cutting trees
- fierce
- birch trees are flowering
- flowery
- grassy
- maggot used for red dye production is ready
- linden trees are flowering
- sickles ahoy
- heather honey time
- leaves-are-yellowing
- leaves-are-falling
- earth is cold and lumpy
So yeah, mostly the same, with a few exceptions
You win.
Romans: having 10 months in a year 2000 years before the metric system.
they're so metric even their calendar is metric
The French had 10 months for a while...
Committee 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
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.
I always assumed this is why the leap day is in february, since it would coincide with the end of the roman calendar
Weird that they didn't add 3 months for this reason 🤔
They 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.
English got lore
It's always rubbed me the wrong way that Oktoberfest doesn't happen in October OR the 8th month.
thats because the roman year started in march and october was the 8th month in their calendar.
Naw, its cause it used to start in october but they moved it to september for better weather.
Oktoberfest ends in October.
Yeah, but try counting the days in those months
Going 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
They'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
Oppenheimer/Einstein have entered the chat with Uraniumday
I'm slightly mentally slow and still don't remember all of the months in a year. I'm 23 years old.
Same. 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.
July 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.
How about how many days are in each month?
If i know the month number, i use my knuckles.
i did read that as "moth names"
But then having 5 elements for weekdays.
Fire, water, earth, air, Avatar state?
moon, fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun
Same thing in Brazilian Portuguese...
