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

Christophe Grandsire writes:
 > 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... ;))
 >
Natrium?  I don't think that's a word in English, and it's not in my
French dictionary.  I'd guess Sodium (atomic symbol Na, and I think
natrium's the old word) but we don't have a 75% sodium atmosphere.
It's 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, and most of the rest is Argon.  Did you
make a mistake, or am I totally missing the point of this?

>   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.
 >
 > http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
 >
 > Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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