Calender
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- narniac101
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Re: Calender
But then, let's not forget that Narnia started out with rulers from Earth, Frank and Helen. If anybody, they're probably the ones who introduced the Narnians to the names of the months as we have them in our world, not to mention other various things that would have taken anybody a long time to invent without the help of some otherworldly technological knowledge and ideas. *coughcough at Mrs. Beaver's sewing machine*
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Re: Calender
This is true, but considering that language and names can change over the course of hundreds of years, it be might possible other names could have been adopted and reverted back after they were reintroduced by the Telamrines. This is just theory, of course.
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Considering Frank and Helen came from our world, too, I've always thought (always since I began thinking about it) it had existed side by side from the beginning, or evolved side by side from the beginning, anyway. I think the natural-world names must be more commonly used, in Narnia at least, because they would be more obvious to the Beasts and other beings; who's August again? It's also quite possible that Telmarines, having also come from Spare Oom and not being in contact with nature and Beasts and whatnot, would use the Latin/English calendar more, or even exclusively.
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Re: Calender
It also has to do with the Czech calendar: we're one of the fewer European nations that use their own names for months, and they are often related to the natural world (rather than some deities or whatnot), just like the names in Lithuanian and Finnish (the other two languages that have it their own way I'm aware of). I'm sure Lewis, being a philologist, was aware of that and that was why he did it that way.
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Re: Calender
That's neat, Marmota! (I'd much rather not have months named after some deities or other, but... oh well, I guess I'm not in charge of naming months )
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I'll let my Head be just in sight;
A smile as small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.
-Emily Dickinson