Frequently Asked Questions
I'll be posting various questions and tentative answers.
The questions were picked up mainly from YouTube comments.
This post is also intended to be a memo for ideas and other miscellaneous things.
The questions were picked up mainly from YouTube comments.
This post is also intended to be a memo for ideas and other miscellaneous things.
Q：How would you describe a word that represents a concept?
Conceptual things first attempt to be represented by metaphors of physical things.
society
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group of people
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Like this.
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group of people
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Like this.
If that seems impossible, just pull sounds from existing languages.
example："but"→ "//～//" (this is from japanese)
example："but"→ "//～//" (this is from japanese)
If even that seems impossible, just make up a word with a sound arrangement that is easy to say.
Adverbs like "very","really" are difficult to express.
Well, in the world of cognitive linguistics, there is a theory of image schemas, and I believe that most of them can be represented by metaphors.
Q：How do you express the names of elements, planets, animals, and plants?
For planets other than those in our solar system, we can either borrow sounds from the names of individual planets, or just throw in the alphabet. Minor planets may have their own alphabetic proper names.
For the planets in the solar system, except for the Sun, Moon, and Earth, I plan to use ✧ as the radical, and put a Japanese reference bases below or to the right of it.
For the planets in the solar system, except for the Sun, Moon, and Earth, I plan to use ✧ as the radical, and put a Japanese reference bases below or to the right of it.
For the elements, it would probably be more user-friendly or world-friendly to write H, He, Li, Be, etc. in English as they are. Sounds, too.
However, I have created technical terms for redox/ions/molecules, not elements.
The creator himself has a desire to write his university notes in Majuuyu, so more science-related words will be added in the future.
However, I have created technical terms for redox/ions/molecules, not elements.
The creator himself has a desire to write his university notes in Majuuyu, so more science-related words will be added in the future.
This is a personal matter, but I was expecting to be able to concentrate on my studies in that field, since I needed to understand the concept properly in order to create easy-to-understand technical terms for placement in majors. However, it seems that I was a person who didn't want to study more than I wanted to create a word for Majuuyu (I lost a university credit lol).
For plants and animals, the kanji radicals (such as "犭" and "木") are also found in majuscule, so the character form should be "radical + characteristics of the plant or animal. In this case, the "characteristic" can be a shape, a property (such as poison), a color, or anything else as long as it is easy to understand. For example, "peach" would look like 
However, I have a feeling that this nomenclature will exceed the limit of the imagination required.
So how about this?
The aforementioned nomenclature will be applied only to those that are highly necessary for this purpose.
Here, the condition is that there is a certain amount of trade in the animal or plant as a commodity between countries with different languages.
If it does not meet this condition, it means that its name is fixed in one language, and if it gets this far, we can borrow the sound of that one language and add it to the radical.
In other words, for animals that live only in a particular region, the "sound used by the people of that region for the name" becomes an element other than the radical.
Here, the condition is that there is a certain amount of trade in the animal or plant as a commodity between countries with different languages.
If it does not meet this condition, it means that its name is fixed in one language, and if it gets this far, we can borrow the sound of that one language and add it to the radical.
In other words, for animals that live only in a particular region, the "sound used by the people of that region for the name" becomes an element other than the radical.
For example, a tree called "tahibo" that grows in a specific region of the Amazon would be called "majuu-tahibo" (now majuuyu hasn't "ta", "hi", or "bo", but the pronunciation can change in the future, so please take it with a grain of salt.).
I feel that this would not be too inconvenient from a practical standpoint.
