Message: 4 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:17:30 +0200 From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <levinius@gmx.de> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] new words qep'a' 28

Am 28.07.2021 um 00:03 schrieb James Landau:

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Agreed. Although people often mention "having a Y chromosome" or "having two X chromosomes", the only times I can think of that I've used "vanadium" are when I was reciting the first thirty elements of the periodic table by heart.

I agree that most elements are not useful in the sense of needing them often, but I would wish the entire periodic system to be available in Klingon, just for completeness.

Here's a list of those we already have: http://klingon.wiki/En/Chemistry

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. 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. 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. CHEMISTRY (Part IV) carbon: ghav oxygen: yInSIp iron: 'uSqan silver: SIrlIy gold: qol'om lead: ngIDvoS bronze: jey' Sorpuq steel: ghav 'uSqan to rust: ragh acid: pey compound: ghalmov MORE CHEMISTY (Part V) hydrogen: bIQSIp helium: julSIp lithium: puj nitrogen: voQSIp neon sodium: popSop magnesium aluminum: bettI' silicon: Santlhar phosphorus sulfur: no'negh chlorine potassium calcium: 'apraQ titanium: yuHSIQ cobalt nickel: yayal copper: Sorpuq zinc: rom'on tin: jey' iodine: jelwaS platinum mercury: letbIng radon radium uranium: tarngeb plutonium: butnat brass proton: valtIn neutron: yomIj electron: tem (same as the word for "deny", as in Kankonian, but Okrand says this is just a coincidence!) nucleus atom: HeySel molecule: 'o'rIS ion: tat base (opposite of acid): 'evtlhev 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!