I was sharing a meme about how absurd our time-related names are: days of the week named after the sun, then the moon, then a bunch of Nordic gods, and then the Roman god Saturn, and then months named after some Roman gods, then some Roman leaders, then some numbers that don’t actually correspond to their placement in our calendars.
And my Chinese coworker was like “dude that’s why our days of the week and months of the year are just the numbers, where January is something like ‘month one’ and Monday is something like ‘day one.’” Seems like a good system to me, honestly.
I was sharing a meme about how absurd our time-related names are: days of the week named after the sun, then the moon, then a bunch of Nordic gods, and then the Roman god Saturn, and then months named after some Roman gods, then some Roman leaders, then some numbers that don’t actually correspond to their placement in our calendars.
And my Chinese coworker was like “dude that’s why our days of the week and months of the year are just the numbers, where January is something like ‘month one’ and Monday is something like ‘day one.’” Seems like a good system to me, honestly.