Subject: Re: [lojban] Chemistry

From: Rob Speer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:36:09 -0400

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