From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-18 07:07:36 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news2.euro.net!uunet!ash.uu.net!world!news From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:06:39 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32022 Date: 2002-12-18T15:06:39+00:00 List-Id: "Grein, Christoph" writes: > But we call Saturday/Sunday the week-end :-) And we call the other five "week days"; two "days of the week" are not "week days". Who designed this crazy language? (English, I mean?) ;-) Not to mention the fact that "day" means "24 hours" or "some portion of 24 hours when the sun is up". - Bob