NOT a typo. Saturnday has again come and gone. I'm sure you've thought, or know about this... days are named after big balls floating in space, though some are not that obvious. Here's a little table:
| Weekday | Stands for | Día de la semana | Representa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | Moon | Lunes | Luna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday | Mars (Tiw) | Martes | Marte | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday | Mercury (Woden) | Miércoles | Mercurio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday | Jupiter (Thor) | Jueves | Júpiter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Friday | Venus (Freya) | Viernes | Venus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday | Saturn | Sábado | N/A :( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sunday | Sun | Domingo | N/A :( |
The strange names I got from the little link above (Yeah, I actually looked it up!). The strange ones in parenthesis are teutonic. And I can also proudly say this little table is my most useful HTML creation up to date. And I did it ALL by myself!
You may have noticed the blank cells in the last column. Now I'm no expert, but I guess Sábado means Sabbath or something. Jewish people must know... And Domingo surely takes origin in Domino, latin for Sir, or Lord (also a boring but popular game), so Domingo should mean "The Day of The Lord", which makes tons of sense.
I also realized that... weekdays are pretty different in between romance languages. (Warning: History ahead) And they mostly mean the same... now let's see... The Romance languages split up and originated in A.D.... few first centuries. And I think the Teutons and Anglo-Saxons (which originated English and German) split up from the others farther back. (German also's got the meanings: Donnerstag is Thursday for Thunder). And their language has really changed since then. So I wonder... did most people - throughout this whole time - know what each weekday meant? If they didn't, they wouldn't have changed its name to resemble their language. Did they even have weekdays? Or is it just a modern convention, and people just made up some fancy old-looking names with the same meaning? If, in these days, they were to change the name "Moon", would the name "Monday" change too? I don't think so.
If anyone knows anything on the subject, I'd be glad to hear about it.
Just for the record, I was injected a D.T. (Difteria & Tétano) vaccine today at 9, and then I made MSDN demos from 10 to 6. And a friend of mine got really upset cause I cancelled on him (De verdad lo siento, Nando). And I met with Bollat, a friend from high school.
And... that was mostly it.
This blog really belongs in this category...
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