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#39325 08/25/01 01:18 PM
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and TEd, you already (in effect) noted that weekend carousing occurs on Satyr-night.
(If carried to extremes, would it be a satyr-nalia?)

Sunnight, however, would be an oxymoron.

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Hilarious, TEd! I think you get ALL the TEddies with this one!

And, Keiva, wouldn't Sunnight be sunspots?


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"lavender urine" Dear WhitmanO'Neill: Almost thirty years ago I saw an ad in Time magazine for flavored vaginal douches. So I asked my foul-mouthed social worker how she thought the market research had been done to determine which flavors were most popular.


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Wouldn't Saturday and Saturnight, Friday and Frinight be more precise and make more sense?

We used to do that time back way back. But Sunnight came before and not after Sunday. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Wai, wai, wait a minute: Saturday night, Friday night, etc. could be a bit redundant

Redundant?


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how she thought the market research had been done to determine which flavors were most popular.

Oh, duh! Ask people.


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Redundant?

Sure...just try the inversion. Saturnight day, Frinight day, etc. How can day be of night, or night be of day? Okay, Faldage...now I see your point. Poor word choice. Perhaps contradictory would be more accurate.


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Perhaps contradictory would be more accurate.

I've always felt that way, too. I had a character I was developing (to no specific end), a temporally transplanted Angle (or Saxon or Jute) from 6th century Engellonde who was struggling to make sense of modern English. He was to have had great difficulties with the concept of Friday night.


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yes, but.. A day is 24 hours..not just the daylight hours.. so Friday night, is that part of Friday that is not during daylight hours..
a day is a 24 hour period, daytime-- is that portion of the day that has sunlight, night(time) is the portion with out sun. and for those of us in more northen latitudes, there is dawn and twilight.. fairly short in NY, but a wonderful time further north..eh, bean?



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That's true, oftroy...we do say "seven days in a week." It's the official nomenclature for a 24 hour period. So it does include the night thereof. But as Faldage pointed out, it must be very confusing for someone just learning English (along with an endless stream of other linquistic contradictions inherent in the language!).


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well that make me think about -- when does a day start?
as faldage pointed out, we used to use the old style, still use by the Jews, that a day ended at sundown, and the you then had Monnight, (sundown to dawn, and Monday, dawn to sunset)

Now we end the day in the middle of the night. How about other cultures? is there anywhere that the day starts at dawn? Monday, followed by Monnight? is suspect not, since i think the old style was something christianity borrowed from the jews, and i suspect moslems did too. but what about cultures that were not exposed to the judeo/christian concepts?


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