[Skeime]

My favorite part is that they designed a new calendar system where the months are named starting at one (Primilis, Secundilis, etc.) but numbered starting at 0. So Primilis is month 0, Secundilis is month 1, and Decilis is month 9. This somehow feels even worse than our current system where there’s a shift of 2 in the other direction for September to December.

They also claim that this is useful when dealing with quarters despite their number of month not being divisible by 4. (Admittedly, it works on the level of weeks.)

[demondemidi]

Why even name the months?

[vorticalbox]

For conversation, "last October" is easier than "last month 10"

[ithkuil]

Funny you say that since October started off as meaning the 8th month.

[croisillon]

october is still a month "name", like decilis, not just "the 8th month"

[ithkuil]

It is a name now, but originates from an adjectival form of the latin number eight "octo"

[wodenokoto]

Japanese gets away with doing that. So does Chinese - They even give the weekdays numbers. People will adapt and start to think of it as nouns, if you introduce it wide enough.

[demondemidi]

No it isn’t. If they were named Blorple and Frotz it would be harder than 10. Only because you’ve had your lifetime to learn the order of the Gregorian months is it in any way easier.

[captn3m0]

Day:Month::Number:Word makes for an easier pattern recognition. It’s the same DD/MM ambiguity problem, but using DD/OCT solves it quite well in conversation and otherwise.

[demondemidi]

Only because you’ve been trained your life to know the order. Plus the words don’t even sort.

[Juliate]

They don't sort... in your language, or how you call them. So what?