Mars Needs Leap Days Too

Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by samatman on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:28PM (#22470236)

Which is perfect, by analogy with month and moon.

If you spoke a language where the word for sun and day were the same, you'd barely notice.

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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by bobbylarrybobby on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:07AM (#22472229)

Chinese is one such language. Both “sky” and “sun” are also used for “day”

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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by samatman on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:46PM (#22480227)

Yep!

Ming (明) is my favorite Hanzi, thanks to a lovely weekend spent at Sun-Moon Lake in Taiwan.

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Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too by SilasX on Monday March 02, 2020 @06:49PM (#22470392)

Also (kind of) analogous to the expression “many moons ago” referring to the cycles of the moon.

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