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To name the Months (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Jakylla to c/linguistics_humor

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

May as well embrace the weird, cuz we dont orbit in exactly 365 days anyway. So theres gonna be leap year type adjustments anyway.

1 odd day from 13x28 is the perfect excuse for a new holiday too. And avoids having to figure out is it a weekday or not. It gets to be neither, a unique special holiday not tied to religion, nationality, culture, politics, etc (though many oppose it for reasons within those topics).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

speaking of leap days, I also considered using a quad-year as a unit, integrating the leap day as a standard day. 365.25x4=1461. But that only divides by 3 and 481, even worse!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And would require special handling in 3/4 of what are now centuries