From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Dec 13 11:27:20 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 13 Dec 2001 19:25:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 28488 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2001 17:38:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m4.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Dec 2001 17:38:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (216.27.131.50) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2001 17:38:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBDHctO25536 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:38:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:38:54 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] chemical names In-Reply-To: <0112130853522A.03384@neofelis> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1138703 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2001 08:33, BestATN@aol.com wrote: > > phma asked for lojban names for specific chemicals. i wonder what the > > general naming conventions for chemical compounds are (or might be) in > > lojban. anyone have any ideas? > > My idea is that there should be some new rafsi for types of chemicals. I came > up with gil (gikla) for -yl, but couldn't find a good set for -ane, -ene, > -yne. Shouldn't you use numbers here? It seems like a perfect opportunity to replace a series of arbitrary names with the numbers that they represent! Or, translate a canonical naming method instead of the common name? -- The tao that can be tar(1)ed is not the entire Tao. The path that can be specified is not the Full Path.