So, I am currently writing an alternate world fantasy in a city in a period analogous to late 19th century England in terms of levels of technology and city layout and employment. (It is NOT Victorian England - I'm doing some other stuff quite differently - I'm just using the period as a broad guide as to what sort of technology I could have. As in gas lamps - yup. Showers - yup. Cars, nope.)
Due to the organised and technological nature of the society, there are regular activities - so saying something can't be done until "next Monday" is entirely plausible. My main character is someone who does quite a bit of organising and has to work to a timetable for a number of things. I found myself writing things about "can't get that done until Tuesday" and the like, using Monday, Tuesday etc as a placeholder.
However I really don't feel like inventing days of the week just because its a fantasy, and having to explain them to the reader. Equally "next Monday" works particularly well, because the reader will know it is just after the weekend. And so on.
My question is quite trivial in its way - in that sort of world set up, would you be jarred by my using our names of the days of the week - as in Monday, Tuesday etc?
Due to the organised and technological nature of the society, there are regular activities - so saying something can't be done until "next Monday" is entirely plausible. My main character is someone who does quite a bit of organising and has to work to a timetable for a number of things. I found myself writing things about "can't get that done until Tuesday" and the like, using Monday, Tuesday etc as a placeholder.
However I really don't feel like inventing days of the week just because its a fantasy, and having to explain them to the reader. Equally "next Monday" works particularly well, because the reader will know it is just after the weekend. And so on.
My question is quite trivial in its way - in that sort of world set up, would you be jarred by my using our names of the days of the week - as in Monday, Tuesday etc?