Talk:Fading of Ormotes

Naming chemicals
Chemistry jargon is carefully built so that tiny changes in word morphology betoken tiny changes in chemical composition.

My suggestion, therefore, is to avoid polysyllabic words as much as possible and instead translate chemical names into phrases.

English is only less methodological than Latin if one tries to cram the information into single words. The methodology in English exists in the grammar, and only if the power of English grammar is harnessed and combined with morphology, can it truly claim to be as effective as Latin and Greek at creating chemical Jargon.

The metre of the phrases, in my opinion, should resemble: "Wooden eye of Newtsbollocks", etc. There already we have two bits possessive information.

The first step should be to name all the elements, ideally with very short, attested words. Hint: consider naming things after their discoverers. Also, "-ling" denotes(fortokens?) an aggregate relationship, whereas -en, denotes composition (Wooden, woollen, etc). Remember also possesstion can be done in three ways : with apostrophes, with an "s" midway through a word, and with "of".

~Inkstersco

Advice Wanted on Element Suffixes
Which suffix would be best in describing chemical elements, bearing in mind that it ought also to function as credible English(should be reasoinably familiar). Pith sounds ideal but I'm not sure whether most people recognise the word. I refrained from using Stuff because that's too general.

nub 1.	the point, gist, or heart of something. 2.	a knob or protuberance. 3.	a lump or small piece: a nub of coal; a nub of pencil.

pith –noun 1.	Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants. 2.	Zoology. the soft inner part of a feather, a hair, etc. 3.	the important or essential part; essence; core; heart: the pith of the matter. 4.	significant weight; substance; solidity: an argument without pith. 5.	Archaic. spinal cord or bone marrow. 6.	Archaic. strength, force, or vigor; mettle: men of pith.

Staddle is synonymous with base, so works nicely with the idea of "Base elements". I think I might use this instead of Pith.

~Inkstersco