Re: Sensory Infixes in rtemmu (was Mauve and a related conlang question)

En réponse à Jesse Bangs <jaspax@...>:

>
> >
> >     This brings up a question that I haven't as yet considered:
> > where to put infixes in a compound! Perhaps the placement would be
> > constrained by real-world facts --- I mean, what would it mean
> > to write | xvo-yai-x |, or oxygen-color, since oxygen is a colorless
> > gas.
>
> If you get enough of it, it turns blue, viz. the sky.
Except that it's the 75% of natrium that give the sky its blue colour, not the
20% of oxygen. I don't remember which colour would the sky be if oxygen was
majoritary, but a colour between yellow and green comes to mind. I studied that
a few years ago, I should have it in my notes. Now where are my notes... ;))

  Surely any
> culture
> advanced enough to have a theory of "oxygenated blood" would know this
> ;-).
>
Well, except for the fact that it's wrong? And that the discovery of oxygen
preceeded by far the discovery of natrium? (which being basically a neutral gas
was difficult to make appear)

Christophe.

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