From phma@oltronics.net Thu Dec 13 11:58:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 13 Dec 2001 19:58:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 35702 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2001 19:58:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Dec 2001 19:58:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.dynip.com) (208.150.110.21) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2001 19:58:17 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0A0233C68C; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:52:09 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Subject: Re: [lojban] chemical names Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:52:05 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0112131452052I.03384@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=7781868 On Thursday 13 December 2001 12:38, Invent Yourself wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > 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? ki'a? Numbers are used in chemical names, to represent both the number of e.g. double bonds and their position. Then there are -one, -ase, -amide, -imide, -al, -ol, and more suffixes. How you get each one to correspond to a number is beyond me. phma