From: "Ivan Derzhanski" <cbmvax!uunet!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!iad>
Date: Fri Apr 26 19:00:14 1991
Message-Id: <9104261850.AA01189@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
To: lojban-list@snark.thyrsus.com
Subject: Re:  Chemical elements proposal (longish)
Status: RO


>From: cbmvax!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan@uunet.UU.NET (John Cowan)

:> What criteria did an element have to meet in order to be assigned a gismu?

:In general, the criterion was supposed to be "metaphorical use in any
:of the Loglan/Lojban source languages".  Chrome, nickel, and neon all
:have metaphorical uses in English (shiny metal, the U.S. 5 cent piece,
:fluorescent light).

First, this argument sounds extremely anti-lojbanic to me.  Who cares for
metaphorical uses of words?  I really hope you don't intend {nikle} to be
used for the US 5c coin, which most of the world has never seen!

Second, to avoid being accused in malglicoism or malmerkoism, will you
please give, for each of the other five source languages, an example of
an element that has entered the list because of a metaphorical usage in
that language.

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Ivan A. Derzhanski   iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
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