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Date: Fri Apr 26 19:00:06 1991
From: Guy Steele <cbmvax!uunet!Think.COM!gls>
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In-Reply-To: John Cowan's message of Thu, 25 Apr 91 11:31:40 EDT <m0jW8II-00031gC@snark.thyrsus.com>
Subject:  Chemical elements proposal (longish)
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   From: cbmvax!snark.thyrsus.com!cowan@uunet.UU.NET (John Cowan)
   Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 11:31:40 EDT

   > 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).

What about alumin(i)um foil, Silicon Valley, Little Iodine, and
platinum blondes?

Also, it's hard to evaluate simply a list of element names without
understanding how you are going to express:

	platinum-osmium-iridium alloy
	hydrogen sulfide
	sodium bicarbonate
	nitrogen tri-iodide
	dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane
	ferric ammonium sulfate
	ferrous ammonium sulfate
etc.

--Guy