TIL that some languages apparently have words inherently differentiating one's status as a citizen or resident of the entity versus a member of a particular ethnic or cultural group? I don't quite grasp the whole thing, although I heard the point being made. What's interesting to me is a) that there is such a thing, which seems very revealing of something about a culture that would need such concepts built into the language, and b) that there seem to be people who think it's inaccurate to interpret the word choice as meaningful. Firstly, since languages have all sorts of concepts built into them, many very specific to their primary culture of use, it seems reasonable that such a thing could exist. Not that I would have thought of it before, since I'm not from a culture where that sort of subtlety functions. Secondly, if that is, indeed, the subtlety of the word choices, where one essentially and inherently includes people, and the other excludes, then I'd kind o...
Such bull, though. If they didn't force themselves to start the workday at 8 despite their time zone, they wouldn't have the problem. It doesn't matter what you call it, it matters when you do things (like waking) in sidereal time.
ReplyDeleteAlso: Local noon in Madrid today is 14:11. In Amsterdam, it's 13:37. That puts them only a good half hour behind NL. It's true that they're closer to the other time zone, but if they moved to the Portuguese time zone they probably still would stay doing business with European countries, and many businesses would just move their opening hours to 7:00 instead of 8:00. And there's no reason why businesses couldn't move the other way while remaining in the same time zone.