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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by myth2018 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:28PM (#32975790)
In Portuguese, Monday-Friday are numbered (2a-feira - 6a-feira).

I wonder if are there other languages also presenting this feature. I believe there are.

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by bloak on Monday September 26, 2022 @06:56AM (#32981526)
Chinese numbers the days of the week, starting from 1 for Monday, but with a special name for Sunday, it seems.

I don't speak, or read, Chinese, but translate.google.com confirms this.

I am often curious about how Chinese expresses something, so I ask translate.google.com to translate an expression into Chinese, then I change the direction of translation and insert newlines between the Chinese characters. It's not a very reliable way of investigating how Chinese works, of course, but it's a lot faster than trawling through wiktionary.org. If anyone knows of a better way of getting an answer to that sort of question, please reply here!

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by anjbe on Sunday September 25, 2022 @10:45PM (#32978764)
The Quakers numbered their weekdays and also their months, to avoid referencing foreign gods in their calendar. https://www.swarthmore.edu/friends-historical-library/quaker...
Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by fortran77 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:41PM (#32975974)
Days of the week in Hebrew are numbered from Sunday "Yom Rishon" (First day, lit. "Head Day") to Friday "Yom Shishi" (Sixth Day). "Saturday" is "Shabbat" ("sabbath")
Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by bonzini on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:46PM (#32976018)
Czech but only for Thursday and Friday. And they're fourth and fifth, so it's off by one.