“It has exactly the meaning they want it to...’
I say Spanish speaking people should drop the name Domingo for Sunday, since that means the Lord’s Day, so as not to offend others who don’t go to service on Sundays. They should call it Common Day. It has exactly the meaning I want it to.
What’s that? Oh yeah, Common and Day are both English words. They won’t span different cultures with different languages. Oy vey, now what do I do?
Yaawn. Way to completely run away from the point like it’s on fire. It’s not about the calendar of one culture, it’s about dealing with the calendar of a culture that’s other than the people trying to navigate it. How do you explain to a group of people who don’t know Chinese history when something happened in China? You can’t use the Chinese calendar, your audience doesn’t understand it, if you use the calendar of your audience you’re projecting their culture on the Chinese event you’re trying to discuss, so instead you come up with a common (oh look there’s that word you foolishly insist has no meaning) reference structure that can span both culture.