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Origin of the third day of the week the different European languages (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Of course we can't even agree if it's the third or the fourth day

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Most of my life I wondered why it's called "middle of the week" when actually Thursday's the day with an equal number of days in a week coming before and after. I often thought maybe weekend's subtracted. Only in my late 20s I learned that there are places where the first day of the week is Sunday lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The funny part is the green countries in this map don't start the week on a sunday. I guess they used to and the name stayed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Neither does the week start on Sundays in the blue countries

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm swiss and I always assumed its because of the workweek being Monday to Friday. But only a few decades ago Saturday was pretty mich a workday as well, so that probably isnt it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

More directly, we can't agree if Sunday or Monday is the first day. IMO Sunday is the first day. Calendars look better with the weekends acting like bookends.

[–] teft 5 points 5 months ago

Index 0 vs Index 1.

[–] BlessedDog 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Estonia is incorrect as well, in Estonian Wednesday would be "kolmapäev", which translates to "third day"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks!

[–] zLurn 6 points 5 months ago

In Basque language the third day of the week is called asteazkena, "the last day" (aste=week azken=last) because the ancient Basque weeks only had three days. So astelehena= first day of the week = Monday. Asteartea=middle day = Thursday.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

In Kosovo the majority is Albanian so they would say Merkure.

[–] Stety 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In Belgium we also speak Flemish, which is a dialect of Dutch, and German. So Belgium should be orange, red and blue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's a map of countries, not languages... There are a lot more situations in Europe where the boundaries of languages don't align with political borders.

Some other problems:

  • Kosovo is colored the same way as Serbia, but there are by far more Albanians live there, so it should be the colored that way.
  • What the hell is the color of Switzerland. Is it colored according to the Rhomansh, a language spoken by 40 thousand people, 0.5% of the population?

this is a very shitty map.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I didnt know the hungarian one had any meaning, its probably from old hungarian or another language.

Interesting facts about the days of the week in hungary: monday means the head of the week and sunday is market day(i think you can figure out why). The rest dont really make sense in modern hungarian.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

For Northern Africa it's Fourth day too (in Arabic)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Are you trying to tell us Scots and Irish don't eat on wednesdays - they just survive on irn-bru and guinness ??

[–] BillMurray 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In the US: hump day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

In the US: the third day is Tuesday.