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For Unicode Consortium, there might be four more new glyphs. The Chinese Chemical Society would, most likely, translate these new elements each into a new Chine

by ttflee 10y ago

For Unicode Consortium, there might be four more new glyphs. The Chinese Chemical Society would, most likely, translate these new elements each into a new Chinese glyph. For existing ones, see https://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2004/2601/3_hao.html https://www.iupac.org/publications/ci/2004/2601/3_hao.html EDIT: It seems that the calling for naming proposals has started: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chemsoc.org.cn%2Finfo.asp%3Fgid%3D195&edit-text= https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&p... http://www.chemsoc.org.cn/info.asp?gid=195 http://www.chemsoc.org.cn/info.asp?gid=195 EDIT2: In fact there are quite a lot of existing ancient glyphs in the current Unicode standard. There is possibility an existing Chinese glyph being reused for a new element, as suggested by Chinese Chemical Society in the letter above.

OskarS 10y ago
I'm not a native English speaker, but I did go to an all-English speaking high school. I was a more-or-less conversationally competent in English at the time, but speaking it and learning from it full time in school was a real challenge. I remember clearly that one of the most difficult subjects was chemistry, because everything suddenly had new names and none of them made any sense. Why is it "sodium" instead of "natrium", or "potassium" instead of "kalium", when the elements are Na and K? For the first six months, I had to basically memorize a table of translations between my native language and english, and silently translate everything my teacher was saying to be able to follow along.
- acqq 10y ago
  Then imagine what the Chinese must learn with the mappings. Regarding the English-German difference in the element names, are there more than these two that don't match? I've found this explanation of the historical context for the different names: https://www.quora.com/Who-renamed-Natrium-and-Kalium-to-Sodium-and-Potassium https://www.quora.com/Who-renamed-Natrium-and-Kalium-to-Sodi... OK, there is also Sauerstoff for oxygen and Wasserstoff for hydrogen.

by ttflee 10y ago

OskarS 10y ago

I'm not a native English speaker, but I did go to an all-English speaking high school. I was a more-or-less conversationally competent in English at the time, but speaking it and learning from it full time in school was a real challenge. I remember clearly that one of the most difficult subjects was chemistry, because everything suddenly had new names and none of them made any sense. Why is it "sodium" instead of "natrium", or "potassium" instead of "kalium", when the elements are Na and K? For the first six months, I had to basically memorize a table of translations between my native language and english, and silently translate everything my teacher was saying to be able to follow along.

acqq 10y ago
Then imagine what the Chinese must learn with the mappings. Regarding the English-German difference in the element names, are there more than these two that don't match? I've found this explanation of the historical context for the different names: https://www.quora.com/Who-renamed-Natrium-and-Kalium-to-Sodium-and-Potassium https://www.quora.com/Who-renamed-Natrium-and-Kalium-to-Sodi... OK, there is also Sauerstoff for oxygen and Wasserstoff for hydrogen.