[lojban] Re: Chemical elements

[lojdjis <petxd086@googlemail.com>]

On Jun 15, 5:11 pm, Pierre Abbat <p...@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 June 2010 08:26:01 lojdjis wrote:
>
>
> > Secondly, it's hard to remember all those words (some elements are
> > gismu, some are fu'ivla).
> > It will be easier for chemists to pronounce them as they write
> > formulae.
>
> Same in English and other languages I know: "gold" is a gismu, "bismuth" a
> fu'ivla, many element names end in "-um" but many don't.
>

Same in English, same in Lojban. So no advantages in Lojban ? That's
the point.
Besides, the process of memorizing all those "jinmlruterfordi" is not
so cheerful. So
it's a shortcoming of Lojban compared to natural languages.

>
> I don't think we need names for isotopes, but we do need a way of designating
> them. The only isotopes that actually have names in English are protium,
> deuterium, and tritium.
>

Let's look at my first suggestion.
We can use:
xukmixepa is Hydrogen-1
xukmixere is Deuterium (Hydrogen-2)
xukmixeci is Tritium (Hydrogen-3)

And we need something that will indicate hydrogen in general as we
can't say "xukmixe" as noted earlier.

> "xukmiri", "xukmiro", and "xukmiru"?
May be.


Another alternative for elements is to say la ruterfordium. or la
rutxerfordium. after all.
Such names are almost immediately available for use by chemicists.
But we can keep already existing gismu for Ferrum, Aurum etc. as they
are quite handy.
And I also think it'd be better to just cmenenize compounds' names.

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