i've had it with you people. Friday.

[Lorizael]

Or maybe it's just the teachers way of making sure that students get every chance to actually learn the material. Learning always trumps getting the grade.

Well, yeah.

As it tuns out, the advantage of the retake for this class is that our professor left us very uncertain of what would actually be on the midterm, so a second crack with knowledge of what you're being tested on is probably going to benefit a good number of us.

[Egbert]

australia was always a bit ahead

[Sava]

this thread has exceeded my expectations

[NICE MOBIUS]

Do I have to do everything around here?

Oi, slacker!

It's Thor's day now

[Sava]

I wonder if, in an alternate universe, there exists a "jesusday"

[Bereta_Eder]

isn't that sunday?

[Bereta_Eder]

I wonder where the names come from

so deutera (monday) means something like "Second"
triti like third
tetarti like forth
pempti like fifth
paraskeyi doesn't mean anything ressembling a number, it means "construction"

then savvato propably comes from jewish? (sabbat)
and kyriaki is a name*




*solved. it's not just a name. it is the day of Kyrios (the lord)

[Bereta_Eder]

ha! the ancients called sunday, imera heliou which means day of the sun (=sunday)
so did the latins and the germans apaprently

monday was the day of the moon
and then
ares (mars)
hermes
zeus
aphrodite
and
cronos

then probably christianity came and said no more gods you dufuses and it got changed (although they were also planets)

[Proteus_MST]

ha! the ancients called sunday, imera heliou which means day of the sun (=sunday)
so did the latins and the germans apaprently

monday was the day of the moon
and then
ares (mars)
hermes
zeus
aphrodite
and
cronos

then probably christianity came and said no more gods you dufuses and it got changed (although they were also planets)

Hm ... then the christians did something wrong in GB and germany ...
in the german and english meaning for 3 (german) / 4 (english) days of the week definitely originate in the german/scandinavian gods .. i.e. Oðin (Wednesday = Wodansday), Þor (Thursday of course), Tyr (in Tuesday) and Frigg (Friday)

Addendum:
Wednesday only in english ... in german it is Mittwoch = Midweek

(on the other hand no surprise that the christian influence is greater in greek ... if we think of the basileia ton romain ... the byzantine empire ... as the successor state of rome)

[Bereta_Eder]

the conversion (of the barbaric tribes to christianity) was not complete it seems!!!
(details are missing )

[Bereta_Eder]

in all seriousness though, good find

[Bereta_Eder]

I wonder what the italians and russians are calling their weekdays
(also now I'm pretty sure the greek weekdays and weekend names represent the 7 days of creation as in the bible. kyriaki (sunday) = day of the lord. and on the 7th day of creation the lord rested that's why all shops are closed!)

which makes me think

in ancient "helaios" (day of the sun)
today (and probably from christianity onward) "kyriaki" (day of the lord)

sun gives life/lord gives life (actually holy spirit but they are trinity)

they are all inteconected

[Lorizael]

Finished paper and lab report. Slept two hours. Now I have jury duty. Still in pain.

[Bereta_Eder]

in the day of the lord thou shalt rest

[Bereta_Eder]

HA!

the jewish people have similar to us names

Sunday Yom Reeshone First day
Monday Yom Shaynee Second day
Tuesday Yom Shlee´shee Third day
Wednesday Yom Revee´ee Fourth day
Thursday Yom Khah´mee´shee Fifth day
Friday Yom Ha´shee´shee Sixth day
Saturday Shabbat Rest

there is a small confusion on the sabbat
it keeps getting better and better

and the arabs too!