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Zackback
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comm
Joined: 22 Jun 2010
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: "Calendars" and the first day of the week |
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Zackback wrote: |
When I ask students to tell me the days of the week and they start off with Monday I immediately correct them and say "No, Monday is not the first day of the week." |
That's funny, I thought there were 2 days in the weekend, Saturday and Sunday. And if Sunday is part of the "weekend" then it definitely is not the beginning of the week. |
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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: Kyungbuk
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2312563
short answer: religion
Long answer: originally people did not take two days off, just one. Saturday, this being the weekend or the "Sabbath"(day of rest) then came christianity. Now the early christian church started worshipping on sunday (traditionally you couldn't do anything on saturday but rest) in 321 A.D. constantine decreed sunday to be the day of worship and that businesses/shops/markets should be closed for the day. thus creating a second day off. So technically friday and saturday are the weekend. But since people generally get sunday off too, it feels more like the weekend than friday and is thought as such as well, thereby crating the falacy that saturday and sunday are the weekend.
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I'd like to see any book, newspaper or something along those lines that when it says "On the first day of the week..." it is understood as Monday. If it says "first day of the work week..." then ok yeah it's Monday but these kind of "calendars" are just nonsense. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:19 pm Post subject: Re: "Calendars" and the first day of the week |
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comm wrote: |
Zackback wrote: |
When I ask students to tell me the days of the week and they start off with Monday I immediately correct them and say "No, Monday is not the first day of the week." |
That's funny, I thought there were 2 days in the weekend, Saturday and Sunday. And if Sunday is part of the "weekend" then it definitely is not the beginning of the week. |
Do you put bookends next to each other or do you happen to place, say, books between the bookends? That's the way I was always taught why Sunday and Saturday of the same week are called the weekend: Sunday is one end of the week and Saturday is the other. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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I vote for wednesday.
Woden is the chief Anglo-Saxon/Teutonic god. Woden is the leader of the Wild Hunt. Woden is from wod "violently insane" + -en "headship".
How better to start your week? |
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artyom
Joined: 28 Jul 2007
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 2:58 am Post subject: Re: "Calendars" and the first day of the week |
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CentralCali wrote: |
comm wrote: |
Zackback wrote: |
When I ask students to tell me the days of the week and they start off with Monday I immediately correct them and say "No, Monday is not the first day of the week." |
That's funny, I thought there were 2 days in the weekend, Saturday and Sunday. And if Sunday is part of the "weekend" then it definitely is not the beginning of the week. |
Do you put bookends next to each other or do you happen to place, say, books between the bookends? That's the way I was always taught why Sunday and Saturday of the same week are called the weekend: Sunday is one end of the week and Saturday is the other. |
Do you say what will you do next weekends (plural) or what will you do next weekend (singular)? |
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drcrazy
Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Location: Pusan. Yes, that's right. Pusan NOT Busan. I ain't never been to no place called Busan
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 4:22 am Post subject: |
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Ask a Mayan. |
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comm
Joined: 22 Jun 2010
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 6:44 am Post subject: Re: "Calendars" and the first day of the week |
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artyom wrote: |
CentralCali wrote: |
Do you put bookends next to each other or do you happen to place, say, books between the bookends? That's the way I was always taught why Sunday and Saturday of the same week are called the weekend: Sunday is one end of the week and Saturday is the other. |
Do you say what will you do next weekends (plural) or what will you do next weekend (singular)? |
Indeed. If there is one "weekend", then it is one unit comprised of two days. Checkmate?
Last edited by comm on Sun Dec 30, 2012 4:15 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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ricochet
Joined: 04 Sep 2011 Location: carpetbagging...
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2012 8:07 am Post subject: |
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there sud be a global official 3 day weekend comprising of Monday the first day of the week. i dont like Mondays. i wud rather shoot the whole day down sleeping off Friday night, Saturday and Sunday binges.
you ever hear of Brenda Spencer? how bout the Boomtown Rats?
check her out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnlMW1ehyu4
she inspired this great tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kobdb37Cwc
im sorry. |
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