From oskar2379@hotmail.com Sun May 04 15:54:11 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: oskar2379@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 4 May 2003 22:54:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 97210 invoked from network); 4 May 2003 22:54:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 May 2003 22:54:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n5.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.89) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 May 2003 22:54:11 -0000 Received: from [66.218.67.156] by n5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 May 2003 22:54:10 -0000 Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 22:54:09 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: xumtau Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200305032019.03126.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 676 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "oskar2379" X-Originating-IP: 68.168.163.103 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=146348372 X-Yahoo-Profile: oskar2379 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 19597 Pierre, Do you mean that lojban has no word that just means 'compound'? What about jorne or mixre? Anyway, I like your idea. But while we are on the subject; I wonder if there is a way to name atoms by their atomic number. If one could make a lujvo for 'charged- particle', and then attach numbers to it to signify how many (since in principle it is the # of protons/electrons that differenciates atoms) you could have words for hydrogen and gold, and still have room for elements yet to be discovered. You can then make a lujvo for 'positive-charged-particle', 'negative- charged-particle', and 'no-charged-particle' for proton, electron, and neutron.