Re: [lojban] Nomenclature of the periodic table

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Thursday, June 02, 2016 17:41:35 Bruno Panasiewicz wrote:
> On 2 June 2016 at 17:21, 'John E Clifford' via lojban <
> 
> lojban@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> > And, of course, they have the day numbers wrong anyhow (to revive an old
> > argument that has been dormant too long).
> 
> That makes matters even worse, but there's a solution. Let's use element
> days! (that is, lurdei, fagdei, jaurdei, mudydei, jimdei, tedydei, soldei --
> Moon-, Fire-, Water-, Wood-, Metal-, Earth- and Sun-day)

It's "derdei", referring to the planet of the element Earth, not to the Earth.

As to elements, I think that there should be a better gism than "jicm" for 
nonmetals, but generally I think that the current nomenclature is good.

Pierre
-- 
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.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.

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