Re: CHAT: Natrium

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:46:29 +0200, Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>
wrote:

>On 14 Jun 02, at 1:30, Jeff Jones wrote:
>
>> (sorry for another OT post. ObConlang: hmmm, have we done the usually
>> dull names-for-elements-in-your-conlang thread again recently? If not,
>> I can start by stating that that's one of the many areas of vocabulary
>> I've never gotten around to)
>
>24 December, "Periodic table in conlang", for starters.
>
>Whether that's "recent" or not depends on your point of view; it's less
>than half a year away, at any rate.
>
>Cheers,
>Philip
>--
>Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>
That recent? I guess we can wait awhile ;-) although it just occurred to me
that chemical element symbols can all be pronounced as 'Yemls words.
They'd be rather short and possibly homophonous, so words derived from the
symbols would be preferable. All I have to do now is figure out what affix
and whether it's a prefix or a suffix, and my vocabulary is enlarged in one
swell foop!

Jeff J.

PS
I found Christophe's translation error highly entertaining once it was
pointed out (I knew he meant nitrogen). I was imagining headlines:

SCIENTIST DISCOVERS AIR MOSTLY SODIUM

API, The Netherlands.
Today, French scientist Christophe Grandsire announced to the Conlang list,
an online research group, his discovery that Earth's atmosphere is made up
of 75% Sodium. This startling result is certain to change the way we think
about breathing and other biochemical processes according to one expert
....