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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>>Message: 4<br><div dir="ltr">>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:17:30 +0200<br></div><div dir="ltr">>From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">levinius@gmx.de</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>To: <a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@kli.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tlhingan-hol@kli.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] new words qep'a' 28<br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Am 28.07.2021 um 00:03 schrieb James Landau:<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> Agreed. Although people often mention "having a Y chromosome" or "having<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> two X chromosomes", the only times I can think of that I've used<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> "vanadium" are when I was reciting the first thirty elements of the<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> periodic table by heart.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>I agree that most elements are not useful in the sense of needing them<br></div><div dir="ltr">>often, but I would wish the entire periodic system to be available in<br></div><div dir="ltr">>Klingon, just for completeness.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Here's a list of those we already have:<br></div><div><a href="http://klingon.wiki/En/Chemistry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">>http://klingon.wiki/En/Chemistry</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>Since 1998, I've been working on a project, for my own conlanging, and to help other conlangers and language learners, called the Landau Core Vocabulary (LCV). It's a word list of the important words to cover, with the lexical distinctions different languages make (such as "daughter (of a mother)" versus "daughter (of a father)" covered.<br><br><br>Part I is a Swadesh-esque list of 200 basic concepts. Part II is adverbs, pronouns, function words, grammatical functions, and conversational phrases. Part III is numbers. Part IV is the most common adjectives, verbs, and nouns. Part V is more specialized but still important words in content areas. Part VI is slang (and conversation-only words like "mhm"). There is also an appendix with proper names.<br><br><br>So anyway, here are the words I have in the Chemistry sections of the LCV -- in Part IV and Part V. Here I have added the Klingon translations for words that have them.<br><br><br>CHEMISTRY (Part IV)<br><br>carbon: ghav<br><br>oxygen: yInSIp<br><br>iron: 'uSqan<br><br>silver: SIrlIy<br><br>gold: qol'om<br><br>lead: ngIDvoS<br><br>bronze: jey' Sorpuq<br><br>steel: ghav 'uSqan<br><br>to rust: ragh<br><br>acid: pey<br><br>compound: ghalmov<br><br><br>MORE CHEMISTY (Part V)<br><br>hydrogen: bIQSIp<br><br>helium: julSIp<br><br>lithium: puj<br><br>nitrogen: voQSIp<br><br>neon<br><br>sodium: popSop<br><br>magnesium<br><br>aluminum: bettI'<br><br>silicon: Santlhar<br><br>phosphorus<br><br>sulfur: no'negh<br><br>chlorine<br><br>potassium<br><br>calcium: 'apraQ<br><br>titanium: yuHSIQ<br><br>cobalt<br><br>nickel: yayal<br><br>copper: Sorpuq<br><br>zinc: rom'on<br><br>tin: jey'<br><br>iodine: jelwaS<br><br>platinum<br><br>mercury: letbIng<br><br>radon<br><br>radium<br><br>uranium: tarngeb<br><br>plutonium: butnat<br><br>brass<br><br>proton: valtIn<br><br>neutron: yomIj<br><br>electron: tem (same as the word for "deny", as in Kankonian, but Okrand says this is just a coincidence!)<br><br>nucleus<br><br>atom: HeySel<br><br>molecule: 'o'rIS<br><br>ion: tat<br><br>base (opposite of acid): 'evtlhev<br><br><br>So we're still missing some frequently used element words like "neon", "phosphorus", and "potassium". Let's break out the ra'taj and say a toast that Marc Okrand lives long enough to give us the whole periodic table!</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>