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Just thinking of a way to improve the accuracy of naming a time for a gathering or a longer-that-a-day event. Months have names and in some countries so do years, so why not weeks? So many possibilities! Perhaps a naming contest would help. I'll be in town between Fibonacci and Oatmeal.
National Week Observances
https://nationalday...eekly-observations/
There is no shortage of already identified National Weeks. Here is a list of week names just for the month of November. Gotta love National Intimate Apparel Market Week! [jurist, Nov 28 2018]
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You'd need 52 different names; how about naming the weeks
after cards in a deck? |
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That could work well with natural quarterly divisions.
Proceed with progression according to a game of
hearts, or perhaps bridge. |
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Over the course of the year, your weeks start with hearts, angle into
diamonds, bash to clubs and are finally buried with spades. A year of
romance, intrigue, remorse, and guilt. |
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Each New Years Eve the deck is shuffled, so that each year has a unique order of cards. This means that the year can be specified by listing the card order, so there would be no need to use year-numbers any more. |
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Yes, but after about 10^67 years, you'd start to worry about
repeats. |
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However... months and years don't start on a fixed day (hence the idea of calendar reform; 13 months of 28 days + 1 "special" day, every month starts on Monday). So there would frequently be overlap between one year's week names and another. |
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Cuss-word intensity is cyclical. |
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A limit was reached with "motherfucker", and we've flipped back
to "minger", meaning "smelly person", which is an entry-level
insult. |
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It's like when there are only 16 bits in the register, and you
increment 65535. |
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But anyway, about the idea: to make these week names
referentially stable you'd need a leap week, to contain the 365th
(and sometimes 366th) day of each year. And each time that
week came round, you'd be offsetting the weekend by another
day. |
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How about we just call all the weeks Jeremy? It would
simplify things immensely. |
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I like [Ian]'s idea, too + |
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Can easily start with the 3 day weekends and holiday weeks.
Labor Day week, Memorial day week, Christmas week is
already used routinely. US federal holidays will get you 20%
of the way there. |
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