From phma@oltronics.net Mon Dec 11 19:03:30 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@oltronics.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_3_1_3); 12 Dec 2000 03:03:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 64358 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2000 03:03:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 12 Dec 2000 03:03:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.oltronics.net) (204.213.85.8) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 Dec 2000 04:04:34 -0000 Received: from neofelis (root@localhost) by mail.oltronics.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA26181 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:03:08 -0500 X-BlackMail: 207.15.133.11, neofelis, , 207.15.133.11 X-Authenticated-Timestamp: 22:03:11(EST) on December 11, 2000 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] sodna klirysilna Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:12:07 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00121119190415.20188@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Pierre Abbat On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, michael helsem wrote: >it's obvious we will have to simply translate chemical formulae >into strings of letters & numbers, it doesn't do any good to >coin tanru like "salt-type sodium chloride", "bleach ('white- >ifying'?) type of sodium chloride" et al because most everything >we have a word for is not a chemical compound but a mixture of >chemicals. How about this?: sodna klirysilna sodna klirykijysilna sodna kliryrelkijysilna kliryslami klirykijyslami kliryrelkijyslami That tells how many O atoms there are, which the -ate system doesn't (IIRR chlorate has fewer than manganate). phma