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second mystic arte • {voice/action for Violet}

[There's the small clearing of a throat, before Jade launches straight into business talk. He's looking for answers to a few of the odd little mysteries of this world...]

Pardon me, I don't wish to be a bother but I've discovered a bit of a discrepancy between this world and the home world I've come from.

I apologize if this does sound a bit silly, but what is the purpose of that three hundred and sixty-sixth day every four years? I'm a tad surprised that this world has such a short year cycle, but I've failed to reach a conclusion on why there is that last day. That and... Months. Is there any reason why they've been broken into days as they have?

[Why aren't your calendars standard and orderly, Pokéworld?]

Time seems to pass the same way. I guess my world just circulates differently to this one.

[Private to Dist]

I'm sure you've noticed the difference with the amount of days in a year in this world. How are you accounting for it?

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Like what? 'Sit-on-her'-day?

[...wow, Luke. Wow.]

[...SNRK.]

That sounds acceptable enough, Luke. [Definitely not correcting you now.] Do you think you'd be able to remember it that way?

Well yeah, I guess. [IF HE HAS TO UGH SO HAARRRDDD] Why is this world such a pain! Learning all this stuff once was bad enough!

You're only learning new names for the days, not new days altogether. It's simple.

[Ugh, he forgot the downside of a naive and stupid Luke.]

Yeah, but these names don't really make any sense! They're not named after anything! I mean, ours are named after the sentiences, but why do they have a 'Fry-day'? Is it a day for frying stuff?

[This is as close to scientific questioning as Luke will ever get.]

They're named as references to the gods of various pantheons, actually.

"Friday" comes from the old English word "Frīgedæg", meaning "meaning the day of the Norse goddess Fríge".

So the days are just named after the deities of the world from which the names originate? I'd imagine it's not this one due to everyone's unfamiliarity with it.

To be more specific, they're named after certain deities from a particular culture in the world from which the names originate. The majority come out of the Germanic tradition, honoring gods of the Norse pantheon. Saturday has Roman origins, honoring Saturn, the father of the king of the gods. And Sunday is also Germanic, honoring the sun, but the Romance languages use a variant on the phrase "the Lord's day" for religious reasons.

That's quite a list. Now you have me curious; how many gods or cultures were modern days and weeks named after? It seems odd that they change depending on the current reigning power.

They don't tend to change with the times, fortunately, though they do with the language. In modern times, we've mostly grown to accept the days as they are — Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Ahh, I see. Once they've become staples, it's not necessary to change them.

There isn't much reason to fix something that isn't broken.

Of course, we've named other things after the gods of different cultures. Our names for the planets in our solar system come from the Roman pantheon, for example.

So I'm guessing the planets were discovered by someone from the Roman pantheon? Or is there another reason they're named as they are?

They were named by someone who believed in the pantheon, and the names stuck through the passage of time. The planet closest to the sun revolves swiftest around it, for example, and so it was named for the Roman god of messengers and travelers. The largest planet earned the name of the king of the gods, and the red planet took its name from the god of war because of its bloodlike color.

I shall have to look into these planets next. Which one is this one?

As far as I can tell, this one isn't any of them. But the one that people live on where I'm from is called Earth.

Zack, I'm still mad at you! Buzz off! I don't care about stupid gods or whatever!

You'll never learn anything with an attitude like that, Luke.

You've expected him to learn something?

[WELL TECHNICALLY HER PORYGON2 DID BUT. For the sake of simplicity she'll just go with yes.]

I had high hopes. It was a valuable lesson, too.

[If he were any more tech-savvy, he'd notice that Zack was typing a little strange...]

What's so great about learning about some stupid gods from a different world? It's not like it'll help me remember.

What you need is a mnemonic.

What are the days of the week as you know them?

[Look, he doesn't even need to use his fingers!]

Remday, Lunaday, Ifritday, Undineday, Sylphday, Loreleiday and Gnomeday.

What's a 'me-mo-tic'?

[There's an n in there, Luke.]

It's something simple, like a word or a phrase, that helps you remember something more complicated. For example, "Lorelei" rhymes with "Fri", so "Friday" means the same as "Loreleiday".

One of the days you missed was "Tuesday". To remember that, you might say, "How many Is are there in Ifritday? Two. Two, like in Tuesday."

[He repeats them for a moment, a little dumbfounded, because why didn't his tutors ever come up with stuff like this, instead of demanding that he memorize everything by rote? ~~The power of edutainment, baby.~~]

Like--Undine is the sentience of the 'water' fonon, and Winds-day starts with 'w'...? [An annoyed noise. At least he got the concept.] Ugh, no, that's dumb.

second mystic arte • {voice/action for Violet}

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