From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Dec 13 12:01:07 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 20:01:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 52387 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2001 20:01:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Dec 2001 20:01:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (216.27.131.50) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2001 20:01:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBDK16k28151 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:01:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:01:05 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] chemical names In-Reply-To: <0112131452052I.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 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. As far as I recall, -ane, -ene, -yne correspond to 1mei, 2mei, 3mei bonds. -- The tao that can be tar(1)ed is not the entire Tao. The path that can be specified is not the Full Path.