From rob@twcny.rr.com Thu Apr 26 14:38:45 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 26 Apr 2001 21:38:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 379 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2001 21:38:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 26 Apr 2001 21:38:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.165) by mta2 with SMTP; 26 Apr 2001 21:38:43 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id f3QLaZS26084 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:36:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.95.175.122]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:36:34 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14stQn-0000IN-00 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:36:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:36:09 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Chemistry Message-ID: <20010426173609.A1086@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <0104261456100E.01394@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <0104261456100E.01394@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:44:31PM -0400 X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:44:31PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > if I tried to say "2,3-dimethyl octa-5-enyl 2,4,6-methyl benzoate", I'd be > completely lost. I think that currently the way to say that would be something like: {re pi'e ci zei re zei xumrmetla zei bi zei mu zei xumrnle zei re pi'e vo pi'e xa zei xumrmetla zei xumrbenzo,eita} The chemical name works just like the Book's example of "non-A-non-B-hepatitis", except a heck of a lot longer. -- Rob Speer