Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin

Patrick Dunn wrote:
> People in the United States do memorize the periodic table
> of elements.  Protracted use of the thing will pound it
> into your head with or without it being in Chinese.
Still, it is inelegant that some of the elements have etymologically
inappropriate names.  To call the lightest element `hydrogen', for
example, is oxygen chauvinism!

So anyway, what do the Chinese names of the elements mean?


> How old are you, anyway?  If you don't mind my asking.
Old enough to have a son (Lu Su) with his own mailbox.


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