[lojban] Re: names of the elements

[Zefram <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
>When I wrote le dikni cartu be le selratni, for those element names that are 
>type-3 fu'ivla where the foreign part begins with a vowel, I more often than 
>not picked a consonant that occurs in the foreign part (e.g. jinmrtiterbi). 
>Nick prefers using 'x' as the consonant regardless of what the foreign part 
>is. What do the rest of you prefer?

I think it's better to pick something that's euphonic in that location
or something that is etymologically justified.  Using a consonant that's
also used later in the word seems a reasonable version of the former.
Always using "x" is not.

>It's at http://phma.hn.org/Language/selratni.html .

Do you maintain the version at <http://www.lojban.org/jbovlaste/wiki/
periodic%20table>?  I think it's better that all Lojbanic thesaurus-like
material be collected in one place, namely the jbovlaste wiki.

Further comments:

(0) lawrencium has the symbol "Lr", not "Lw".

(1) you're a bit behind.  Following rutherfordium are the following
elements:

* 105: dubnium (Db)
* 106: seaborgium (Sg)
* 107: bohrium (Bh)
* 108: hassium (Hs)
* 109: meitnerium (Mt)
* 110: darmstadtium (Ds)
* 111: roentgenium (Rg) (proposed)

(The name "roentgenium" and symbol "Rg" for element 111 have
been officially proposed and are now in a public comment period.
<http://www.iupac.org/reports/provisional/abstract04/corish_311004.html>.)

(2) The layout of both periodic table pages suffers from the reliance
on tables.  I'm using Lynx, and a simple numerical list of elements
would be really nice.  I may have a go at rearranging the wiki page.

-zefram