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Owain added new scientific terms to the Welsh dictionary. These include: “damcaniaeth dwysedd ffwythianolion” meaning “density functional theory” “bra
by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 3y ago
Owain added new scientific terms to the Welsh dictionary.
These include:
“damcaniaeth dwysedd ffwythianolion” meaning “density functional theory”
“brasamcan graddiant cyffredinol” which means a “general gradient approximation”
“dull gwahaniaeth feidriadd” which translates as “finite difference method”
Which sort of disproves the hypothesis that 'Welsh Is a Language for Science'.
- defrost 3y agoNot in the slightest. When Isaac Asimov was doing his doctoral thesis in Chemistry the defacto language for reading and understanding any applied | industrial chemistry work was German. The three Welsh examples above appear to the untrained eye just as long, unweildly, and complex as German expressions in chemistry .. the real test is whether they become easier with familiarity and regular use.
- 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 3y agoMy point was not that the additions are unweildly, it was that they were necessary.
- fdsafdsafds 3y agoLong and complex-looking terms in the de facto language of a particular area of research are quite different from long and complex-looking novel terms in a highly localised minority language which the speakers of that language would have difficulty parsing.
- kamma4434 3y agoBut… why should anybody use them? How large can the chemical community in Wales ever be? And what is the advantage over English?
- selimthegrim 3y agoThere is a very good linear algebra textbook available online for undergrads by A.O. Morris written in Welsh (as he was a native speaker), after the English edition went out of print.