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Re: Technical terminology

From:James Landau <neurotico@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 10:58
> So then I wondered about conlangs. How many of you > have included technical vocabulary in your conlangs?
Kankonian has names for the chemical elements (not just the simple metals, but also "hydrogen", "neon", "sodium", "dysprosium", "uranium", "samarium", etc.). Of course, they're going to need the words so they can make their middle names. While I was working on units of time, I was also thinking of adding a connective (i.e. preposition) for isotopes. It'll most likely simply be nabranat, adding na (of) + branat (neutron), so caesium-133 would be turugas-nabranat-133. (BTW, while looking up "caesium" in the database file, I just discovered that "turugas" (caesium) is right next to "turuth" (clock). I don't remember whether this is coincidence, or whether I took "turugas" from "turuth". Interesting.) Neutron is "branat". Proton is "soat". And electron is "osat". They fit together nicely, don't they? It also has words for the concepts of its own grammar, so they have words for "plural", "pluperfect", "infecitive", "sentencial", etc.