Oh okay… never read his books. Yeah, it’s 15 for Monday/Wednesday and 14 for the rest. So does he also associate rooms with things that remind him of that particular day… or how does he differentiate; i.e., knows the number for the room?
Aside from Sunday at home, Monday at work, I also pronounce it wetness-day (at the pool), and thirsty Thursday (at a bar). Basically, a mnemonic association between palace and weekday.
True, similarly with Alex Mullen when he places the initial sounds of the Chinese words he’s learning. I’ve also read that @LynneKelly is doing the same but with the radicals instead of sound:
I do something similar with book chapters (whenever they are meaningful) and the house/shop stands for a chapter and the inside for the key points of that chapter… works with any nested list though.
It’s certainly easier with a smallish number but as with the radicals example above, you can do more if you got a good mnemonic link. I did Toki Pona once by palace\over{initial\space letter}, but only because the number of words in the language is about 120. Otherwise, I’d use something grammar or script related, rather than alphabetical order, but Toki Pona is also genderless.
I keep the order of the items just in case. The weekday calculation itself doesn’t require it, but if the question changes to: when will date x be on a Thursday again? All you have to do is follow the journey of the palace you already identified as date x’s year code.
Both those cases I’d consider either an exception to the rule or an advanced technique though… and your definition is pretty spot on. Thanks for sharing.