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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What do people that start the week on sunday call the "weekend"? For them only Saturday is the weekend and Sunday is the weekstart or what?

[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 24 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Weekend like bookend, both sides.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Ah yes, Weekends are like bookends. I like your analogy.

If these nonces up there can understand that there's no such thing as a "bookstart," they can begin to understand the concept of weekends holding the week together from opposite ends.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

On Friday Americans wish each other a good weekend and weekstart, obv (if they even get both off, which sounds unlikely now I’ve said it).

It's the Front end buddy

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Σαββατοκύριακο. Saturday and Sunday. It would be far weirder to start the week on Δευτέρα which literally meaning "second".

Of course in English and other languages Monday does not mean second. Still for Mose western (plus Arabs) Monday has been second after Sunday. Long before Saturday was a day off.

ISO defining the start of the week as Monday due to it being the first business day (lol) has comparatively little impact.