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From: Andrew Usher on 22 Feb 2010 19:43 Peter Moylan wrote: > Andrew Usher wrote: > > > I chose the Christian holidays because they are international, > > ??? They're more so than any other holidays, are they not? Andrew Usher
From: Andrew Usher on 22 Feb 2010 19:49 Peter T. Daniels wrote: > > The Catholic Church has stated, I believe more than once (it's linked > > to somewhere in this thread) that fixing Easter to a particular week > > would be acceptable. > > "The Catholic Church" (which refers to no specific organization) > hasn't spoken for all of Christendom for nearly half a millennium. 'The Catholic Church' or simply 'The Church' refers to exactly one organisation. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Also, it's been longer than half a millennium if one includes the East. > (It > took almost 200 years to get their newfangled calendar accepted just > throughout Western Europe, and it took the Russian Revolution to get > it used across the East.) Nowadays, though, globalisation would be much faster. AndrewUsher
From: Androcles on 22 Feb 2010 19:52 "CDB" <bellemarec(a)sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:hlv1ci$662$2(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Paul Cardinale wrote: >> >> Are you capable of writing anything that doesn't demonstrate >> asounding ignorance and arrogance? >> > Could you be more specific? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/asounding The word you've (Cardinale) entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search bar above. 1.. sounding 2.. ascending
From: Robert Bannister on 22 Feb 2010 19:59 Yusuf B Gursey wrote: > In sci.lang Brian M. Scott <b.scott(a)csuohio.edu> wrote in <71abjatraoiv$.22pibfupt3i9.dlg(a)40tude.net>: > : On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:01:15 +0800, Robert Bannister > : <robban1(a)bigpond.com> wrote in > : <news:7ue3asF7eoU4(a)mid.individual.net> in > : sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.lang,alt.usage.english: > > :> Yusuf B Gursey wrote: > > :>> On Feb 19, 11:25 am, Mike Barnes > :>> <mikebar...(a)bluebottle.com> wrote: > > : [...] > > :>>> But I thought that for most people the whole point of > :>>> Easter is that they get time off work. > > :>> not in the US, at least not in my state. > > :> Are you saying that Easter is not a holiday in your state? > > : He's saying that people don't get time off work on account > : of it. Which is doubtless true; I don't, either. > > yes. it is not an official holiday, but there is a slowing down of > bussiness, as some businesses give employees vacation or have a reduced > employee load. I am not a Christian, and while in college I had asked why > we were not eating at the regular cafetaria during. the woman in > charge, a Puerto Rican, answered in shock: "it's Good Friday!" Thanks. I had read Peter D's answer first anyway, which answered the question. I find it mildly surprising that the authorities didn't find some excuse for a Spring holiday, but maybe you have too many already - or, in light of 24/7 shopping, some people have holidays. -- Rob Bannister
From: Andrew Usher on 22 Feb 2010 20:00
PaulJK wrote:. > > The Slavic and Baltic day names come from Greek tradition (itself > > aberrant), not from Western tradition where it was always Sunday. > > Where did you get that nonsense? > > If you actually checked the Slavic/Baltic and Greek day > names you'd find that they obviously do NOT follow the same > tradition. Hey, what a surprise, Greek day names treat Sunday > as the day number one! OK, it seems I was wrong? Where do they come from, then? Andrew Usher |