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Why is it that only 8 months out of the year (January - August) have cool names, while the other 4 are stuck with generic names (September, October, November, December -- i.e. 7th month, 8th month, 9th month, 10th month)? September and its brethren deserve our love too!
Jacobin calendar
http://windhorst.org/calendar/
Seasonally descriptive month names (in French). (Ideal for haiku (in French).) [pottedstu, Nov 29 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
I'm confused
http://almanakka.helsinki.fi/english.html
nothing new there then.... [po, Nov 29 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Lepidoptera
http://www.funet.fi...nglish-index-a.html
These have different names in Helsinki [pottedstu, Nov 30 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Rotterdam System
http://pweb.jps.net.../other/rotmonth.htm
How they do it on Mars. [nineteenthly, Jan 04 2012]
[link]
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Good point. Maybe Septemptress, Octos, Novestella, and Decambria, or not. |
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Change the name for January to UB? |
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I think we should, if anything, change the months to names considered extremely vulgar. After time, these words will lose their shock value and no longer be offensive.
"Hey, kids, it's almost Assfuck! You know what that means, right?"
"Yaaaay! Christmas time!" |
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September could be renamed Osamaber |
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Baked: the Jacobin calendar introduced in France after the French Revolution. Each month has an appropriate seasonal characteristic, which avoids naming them after people or religious events. |
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vendémiaire, brumaire, frimaire (autumn); nivôse, pluviôse, ventôse (winter); germinal, floréal, prairial (spring); messidor, thermidor, fructidor (summer). |
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I've posted a link which includes a converter to the Revolutionary calendar, and an explanation of the slightly-decimal structure (which also included 10 day weeks, and all months were 30 days). |
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PS: That could be kinda confusing, what with the numerically-named months being out of synch. Do we reschedule September to July, and so on, or do we rename February to Zeromber and January to whatever-the-Latin-for-Negative-One-ember-is? |
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janet, favourite, murchison, apricot, maybe, tune, duly, orchestra, septum, toby, novella, decadent. |
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I originally mis-read the title as "fish naming months." Maybe the number months could be Haddock, Snapper, Mullet, and Scrod. |
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If we rename all the months, let's make sure the first letters create a 12-letter acronym, such as CROCODILIANS, or FLIMFLAMMING, or KLEPTOMANIAC. This could lead to many new puns and other witticisms that simply are not possible with JFMAMJJASOND. |
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I was confused to begin with : 'Finish naming months' I thought we had. Then I realised I was being intellectually flawed. Again. What's Scrod? Has anyone ever wondered why a dodgy 80's haircut is named after a smelly fish? Round of applause to AA, that's one of the funniest things I've read in ages! |
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Hinter: Dismember (old year dying); Damnuary (dead and in hell); Feverary (shivering and sniffling)
Sproing: Marsh (rain and mud); Ariel (flowers and foolishness); Maya (*seems* to be getting warmer)
Shimmer: Jeune (naive, childlike hope); Jeweli (the odd wee gem of a day); Aw-gusts (what the hell happened to Summer?);
Pall: Step-tender (getting muddy again); Ocht-ochre (greenery gone); 'Nuff-umber (brown, brown and more brown... enough already!). |
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Why not just undo all the naming constrants and revert to a system of naming based on the apogee(aphelion) / perigee (perihelion) of earth? pg…pgi…pgii…iipa…until we're all blue in the face? |
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There would have to be a similar convention to eliminate eponymous naming of days and weeks also. Maybe weeks could be on a 28 day cycle so we'd not have 4 weekends a month, just two, since the other two would be weekstarts: lunen, luna, exlune, exluna. |
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Weekdays could be changed to what's being served at the Jacobean middle school. |
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Now AA, the real test of time would be to see how profanic December is. |
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OldTimer - "Hey kids, I can remember a day in December..."
Kids - "AAAAHHHHH! Grandpa said a bad word!"
OldTimer - "No I didn't! Ah, I forgot, it's assfuck to you, as I was saying..." |
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To save the phantom punster posting it as an idea, try these: |
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tammikuu, helmikuu, maaliskuu,
huhtikuu, toukokuu, kesäkuu,
heinäkuu, elokuu, syyskuu,
lokakuu, marraskuu, joulukuu. |
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Yep, that's the Finnish naming months. (Jan-Dec.) |
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(Addendum: I think [po] posted a link to a Finnish calendar while I was busy typing them all into the English-Finnish online translater. So, apologies.) |
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A lot of this was covered in the 8 Month Year idea where I suggested:
"...maybe we can come up with new names, perhaps sell the naming rights to the highest bidders. There could be Coketober, Microsoftember, DECember, Disney, AuGates (you know he'd buy more than one)."
There were also references to the 42nd of AOL-TimeWarnerary and Sony Fool's Day jokes. |
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'To save the phantom punster posting it as an idea'
I think you'll find that [po] already posted it as a link. |
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'nuff said what was that?! |
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Pihlajakehrääjä, Kastilianpihlajakehrääjä, Pikkupihlajakehrääjä, Valkotäpläkoivukehrääjä, Silkkiperhonen, Tammensyyskehräjä, Euroopanbrahmakehrääjä, Espanjanlyhytsiipikehrääjä, Marokonlyhytsiipikehrääjä, Algerianlyhytsiipikehrääjä, Hallakehrääjä, Etelänhallakehrääjä |
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How long did it take you to type that? |
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I bet he just cut'n'pasted the 'hrääjä' bits. |
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Would that be the Algerian Greyling or the Algerian Grizzled Skipper Moth? |
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[beaux] you forgot pikkachukehrääjä |
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sniff ... thank you .... sniff |
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po, wouldn't that be a Japanese/Finnish moth? |
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sven, lewisgirl, I cut'n'pasted all of them. |
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pottedstu, maybe sven can tell us which it is. I don't know what any of it means, except, of course, for Castillian, European, Spanish, Moroccan, and Algerian. And could that be Ethylene? What does ethylene have to do with moths? And maybe Silk = Silk. And of course, I think we've all deciphered the Finnish word for "moth." |
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Sorry, they're all lepidoptera to me. |
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Don't get me wrong, this is rather amusing, but where's the 'n' gone? isn't this all getting a bit letterist? oh, and no, I can't help you with the validity of the Finnish moth names, but it looks counterfeit to me. |
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All your moths are belong to us..... |
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I like to think of these generic month names like the spare
plinth on Trafalgarc Square. - i e for future expansion / to
honour someone not famous at their construction.
Perhaps now is the time for the first of them. My vote
would go to a scientist or mathematician |
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Perhaps it could be like the naming of hurricanes,
with the names changed every year, but always in
alphabetical order. |
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Or how about names in numerical order, but in an old language like Latin or something? We could offset the numbers a bit, just to be amusing. |
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June and July were once called Quintilis and Sextilis. The Rotterdam Month Naming System for Mars is pretty nifty. |
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I'd be interested in a binary 4-bit 'gray-code' which would allow for any slowing of the earth's orbit around the sun by providing a 'spare' 4 months.
Jan = 0000
Feb = 0001
Mar = 0011
Apr = 0010
May = 0110
Jun = 0111
Jul = 0101
Aug = 0100
Sep = 1100
Oct = 1101
Nov = 1111
Dec = 1110
WWW = 1010
XXX = 1011
YYY = 1001
ZZZ = 1000
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tammikuu, helmikuu, maaliskuu, huhtikuu,
toukokuu, kesäkuu, heinäkuu, elokuu, syyskuu,
lokakuu, marraskuu, joulukuu. |
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And, in leap years, sudokuu. |
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