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Bullet51 wrote: March 22nd, 2020, 11:34 pm

Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote: March 20th, 2020, 8:27 am For Chinese (I am not good at Chinese), can we use 机 as a abbrev. of 滑翔机? It is the last character and it sounds like "G" (which is the abbrev. of glider)

4G tridirectional synthesis -> 四机三向合成, etc.

... In this case use G instead to avoid confusion.

Pseudo- 伪-
oid- 类

GUYTU6J wrote: March 20th, 2020, 11:35 am A note for my own proposals: in addition to the list,

GUYTU6J wrote: February 21st, 2020, 9:40 pm The page on Pattern naming lists some conjunctions and prefixes. Here's my idea:

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On 配
At 接
And 与
Tie 连
Bridge 搭
Bi- 双
Mirrored 映
Rotated 旋
Siamese 并
Weld 杂
Cis- 顺
Trans- 反
Ortho- 邻
Meta- 间
Shift- 偏
Para- 对
Up 上
Down 下

Another issue I'd like to mention is about the infinite extensible families. I plan to denote the length with 甲，乙，丙，丁，戊，己，庚，辛，壬，癸，十一，十二，十三，...，like how we name straight alkanes. It will apply to boat, ship, canoe, barberpole and xWSS families.

I thought about general types of patterns as well.

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Pattern 图案
Object 物体
Soup 汤
Ash 汤渣
Spark 火花
Methuselah 寿星
Still life 静物
Oscillator 振荡器
Spaceship 飞船
Puffer 播种机（不是“河豚”！）
Rake 洒水车（不是“耙”！）
Gun 枪
Wick 灯芯
Fuse 导火索
Agar 基质（“琼脂”只是一种特定成分的？）
Breeder 繁殖机
Spacefiller 填充器
Factory 工厂
Conduit 导管
Garden of Eden 伊甸园

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Block 方块
Blinker 闪闪（不是“眨眼”！）
Glider 滑翔机
Tub 井
Boat 舟
Ship 船
Beehive 蜂房（改主意了，蜂窝/蜂巢更大）
Snake 蛇
Aircraft Carrier 引号（不打算直译，因为它明显更向竖排文字中的引号﹂﹁）
Barge 舢板（？）
Pond 池
Loaf 面包片
Eater 1 吃货1号 （Fishhook 鱼钩）
LWSS/MWSS/HWSS/OWSS 轻型飞船/中型飞船/重型飞船/超重飞船

If the polyomino methuselahs are named according to the shape, they could be like (borrowing some characters from pinyin notaion)

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Pi-heptomino 匚形七联骨牌
B-heptomino ㄛ形七联骨牌
Herschel ㄐ
Ghost herschel ㄣ
T-tetromino ㄒ形四联骨牌
Stairstep hexomino ㄠ形六联骨牌

But I'm not sure for R-pentomino.

That is a terrific work！ would you mind post them on the Wiki Page？



Perhaps I can contribute a little.
Here are some previous notation of my：

Eater：吞食者。指一类能够吞噬滑翔机和飞船，自身不受损的结构。
Still life：静止体。
Oscillator：振荡体，以2个及以上单位时间为周期反复运动。
Methuselahs
玛士撒拉(希伯来人祖先,挪亚的祖父,活到九百六十九岁)
翻译：句芒。句芒（gōu máng），是中国古代民间神话中的木神（春神），主管树木的发芽生长。

Confirmed: The above user is Chinese.

Here is some of the 破壳元胞自动机小组 translations:

Wick - 威克斯. (Historical reference: I uses 百毒翻译 before, which translates "Wicks" with the letter W capitalized to 威克斯. Then it becomes the general word for wicks in 元胞自动机小组.)

Pattern - 图样(formally) or 图形(informally). Former translation is by AlephAlpha.

Soup - 汤.

Ash - 汤渣. （来自贴吧的外来词，I think. I joined 破壳 relatively late.）

Oscillator - 震荡器/振荡器/震荡子/振荡子（论坛际通用。）

Replicator - 复制器 (复制子 is not as 通用 as 震荡子.)

Rake - 耙/雷克斯 (See 威克斯)

Puffer - 河豚 (when referring to CGoL puffers) or no translation.

Hunting wrote: February 21st, 2020, 7:43 am I agree. Also I plan to transtlate LifeWiki.

LifeWiki Chinese edition. Sounds good, right?

sound great！

（join with me on Bilibili or discord）

Dylan Chen wrote: November 28th, 2020, 7:10 am

Hunting wrote: February 21st, 2020, 7:43 am I agree. Also I plan to transtlate LifeWiki.

LifeWiki Chinese edition. Sounds good, right?

sound great！

（join with me on Bilibili or discord）

Where?

I was browsing the forum when I saw this and it caught my attention. I'm native in Chinese and I think I could help. Is there any way I can contribute to this?

Hunting wrote: March 21st, 2020, 3:59 am

GUYTU6J wrote: March 21st, 2020, 3:30 am

Hunting wrote: March 21st, 2020, 3:13 am

That's correct, I disagree on that one.

- The result of this methuselah contains 十六（个）船，七十（个）方块，七十八（个）闪闪……

- Wow! a very^16 long ship?

所以为何要丢掉量词呢，如果意思已经变了的话？

因为很自然。

How about something like this:
船
长船
长长船/二次长船
长长长船/三次长船
四次长船
五次长船
……

It still doesn't disambiguate some things like 十四次长船 and 十（个）四次长船 but I feel like it's better than 十六船, 十（个）六船 and 十六（个）船.

Marki wrote: December 12th, 2020, 10:02 pm

Hunting wrote: March 21st, 2020, 3:59 am

GUYTU6J wrote: March 21st, 2020, 3:30 am
所以为何要丢掉量词呢，如果意思已经变了的话？

因为很自然。

How about something like this:
船
长船
长长船/二次长船
长长长船/三次长船
四次长船
五次长船
……

It still doesn't disambiguate some things like 十四次长船 and 十（个）四次长船 but I feel like it's better than 十六船, 十（个）六船 and 十六（个）船.

Perhaps 五倍长船 is better, since 倍长船 unlike 次长船 sounds normal (倍低音).

Another idea is 长船 (V), although this is not even a close analogy to chemistry.

Hunting wrote: December 16th, 2020, 3:11 am

Marki wrote: December 12th, 2020, 10:02 pm

Hunting wrote: March 21st, 2020, 3:59 am

因为很自然。

How about something like this:
船
长船
长长船/二次长船
长长长船/三次长船
四次长船
五次长船
……

It still doesn't disambiguate some things like 十四次长船 and 十（个）四次长船 but I feel like it's better than 十六船, 十（个）六船 and 十六（个）船.

Perhaps 五倍长船 is better, since 倍长船 unlike 次长船 sounds normal (倍低音).

Another idea is 长船 (V), although this is not even a close analogy to chemistry.

yeah I guess it's better.