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

--- In conlang@y..., Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@F...> wrote:
> En réponse à Jesse Bangs <jaspax@J...>:
>
> >
> > >
> > >     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.
Natrium is the root for the symbol of the element
sodium (a metal), and is the word used in some
languages (German, e.g.). Furthermore, Nitrogen is
colourless. Oxygen has a colour because it has two
unpaired electrons - it is, I believe, a triplet
radical in the ground state (??). And that colour
is... blue. Liquid air is blue because of the presence
of oxygen, and liquid oxygen is pronouncedly blue. I
don't think that natrium even has a relation to the
French root for nitrogene (is it not something like
nitrogène?.. I don't remember)

I am not willing to make statements about the
atmosphere, because I don't know enough about the
physics, but from what I know about the chemistry,
this is incorrect in every respect.

> 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... ;))

If this is the case, it is for a reason other than
that which you cite.

Stephen

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