An Ordinary Day

Natium? Should I call that element Natium? I don’t know it sounds too commonplace plus there’s always Natrium that is of course Sodium so what about Zicronium? Zirconium? Either of the two I think it’s Zirconium but either way its something that’s actually out there not something I made up though it does sound like something I made up I have a particular affinity for Z I like Z something about Z so if there’s only one of these two I could use the other couldn’t I yes I could but then it would be too similar but our science doesn’t have a problem with similar like ridiculously similar I mean what’s the deal with Yttrium and Ytterbium I mean it’s just a b no there’s also an e an e and b but what difference does that make no it’s best I come up with a totally different name for the element I want like an out of the world name an out of the world name an out of the world name ending with ium that sounds silly I mean why would anyone outside Earth want to name like ninety percent of all elements ending with an ium but anyway if that’s a convention I can’t just copy paste it into my thing I’ll have to either name each element differently or come up with my own convention God my own convention sounds like so much work but then if I try to name them all unique like so perfectly unique names I give to them to my elements then my elements wouldn’t be very different than pretty much anything I come up with to the human eye now would they because we people are used to certain customs in our namings and I mean even anyone would clearly see that Jack is not the name of any element or that Einsteinium is not the name okay bad example I mean which which can I take oh yes Barium Barium is not the name but wait Barry it could be Barry couldn’t it no of course not but it could, how do I know it wouldn’t okay better example better ah yes one would easily understand that Tungsten is not the name of a dude or a girl or even a farm pig I don’t know maybe Sheldon would name his pig Tungsten or he won’t because Sheldon won’t get a pig in the first place he would be so scared I guess some scientist might get a pig now who was that scientist who had a pig Eric I mean of course Hawking writing as Eric but just because he wrote as Eric doesn’t mean he would actually have done everything that Eric did I wonder if he liked Jammy Dodgers and now why would someone name something Jammy I mean it sounds like Jimmy but it’s not and if Jim is the proper name then what’s Jammy’s proper name Jam but wait Jim is not the proper name people call James Jim oh my God you’d think Jammy would come from James but no Jimmy comes from names no Jimmy comes from James and oh where was I yes nobody would think Jammy is the name of an element and Tungsten the name of a person but the German name of Tungsten is Wolfram and that is the name of a person or is that Wolfgang point is we humans make a mess of names but we usually know that Oxygen yesss Oxygen is not the name of a guy would we okay let’s not go into that again but point is to any human being Jammy is a dude and Oxygen is an element but if in my thing I call a person Blurfax and I call an element Hooch that would be so weird to anyone I mean oh shit Hooch is the name of a person imaginary person but still Madam Hooch so naturally people would think Hooch is a person and Lupin is a person and actually Lupin is a company and I had to look at Lupin’s chart right I have to sell my Lupin but I shouldn’t sell my Lupin just yet they would be giving dividends soon enough and so point is that Lupin is the name of a guy but also a company I wonder which way it was were the founders Potterheads or was JK a fan of the company whichever it doesn’t matter again Maruti is a company and a God and I should probably watch Maruti’s chart too while I’m at it and no but the point is that Hooch is a person clearly and the other the other is the sort of name you would give an alien wouldn’t you I wouldn’t I hate it when people discriminate against aliens with their prejudices with green faces and big bulky eyes and names like Blurfax but then again to an alien called Blurfax the name Jammy might sound just as strange as the name Blurfax seems to Jammy sorry Jimmy Jammy is a biscuit Jimmy is a person okay point is that I should probably develop a separate convention for naming my elements if I plan to make more of them of course I should make more of them I can’t just put all the creative responsibility on Vibranium like some people do in all fairness they did make three there’s Vibranium and Adamantium and that element Tony Stark invented sorry synthesized God you have to use the right terminology if I plan to write science fiction nobody invents elements you either discover them or you synthesize them but hang on isn’t Technetium supposed to be synthetic but why did I think it wasn’t anyway the point is that I need a new way to name my elements as many as I need God I really thought developing my own language would be the end of it but it’s still not and it’s such a tedious thing to do I mean how on Earth how on Middle Earth yeah good how on Middle Earth could Tolkien come up with three languages and for the same species oh my God and the other species probably have their own languages I wonder if it would help my language if I actually learned Quenya or Sindarin I heard Sindarin is easier but everyone would be like improve your German first and then learn Sindarin of course they would call it Elvish normal people don’t know that Elvish can mean either hang on I could speak Elvish if I tried couldn’t I I mean ash nazg krimpatul no wait krimpatul does not follow ash nazg I it doesn’t just translate it and see one ring is ash nazg and krimpatul doesn’t talk about the ring of course I mean it talks about the ring but not directly it just says in darkness binds them so something else must come before but that’s not Elvish that’s just the Elvish script and the language is that of Mordor oh God a fourth and counting anyway the point is that I probably need to think about the idiosyncrasies of my language before I decide how to name that element of mine idiosyncrasies like the real peculiarities idiosyncrasies of my language I love that word I don’t use it too often where did I use it last oh yes idiosyncratic risk that is every risk a security has on its own irrespective of the market risk now what was the other word for that systematic risk or systemic risk I forgot who cares I don’t have to take an exam on that topic for a few years anyway so market risk yes I like to call it market risk that upon idiosyncratic risk is the beta and wow I remember a lot and anyway the point is that I need to figure out the peculiarities of my language maybe there’s something in the English language that makes the ium sound so nice I mean the elements ending with ium sound so proper and there’s an aura around them there’s an aura pretty much around everything we name sorry I do that often they name in science like if I go looking at examples now I’ll go completely off the rails now what was the main thought again oh yes my element now how can I name my element something so that it has that aura but doesn’t sound too Earth-born if there’s such a word I mean something found in creatures outside cannot be limited to the elements on Earth I mean all elements are just heavier versions of the first element Hydrogen now what if it so happened that the supernova which gave us the elements we have right now didn’t stop I mean the process of creating heavier elements stops at Iron doesn’t it no of course it doesn’t the core of the star stops doing that when you reach Iron and other guys are created after the explosion now Iron is a cool name Iron is unique like Tungsten no lets forget Tungsten now nobody would think Iron is a guy’s name but Aaron is and Byron is and Bryian is and Ayaan is so why wouldn’t Iron be so back to square one how to make elements sound like they’re something special you know like Palladium that sounds so nice so in the end we agree that a unique name might create problems for someone who doesn’t know my language all that well and why would they I mean I don’t know it myself that well yet yes a lot of work to be done maybe I shouldn’t confuse my language and my elements I mean our elements somehow come from Latin anyway like many of them and there’s this huge thing Latin has for things ending in ium no actually it has a thing for things ending in um just um I mean think about it silver is argentum gold is aurum platinum is just platinum but there’s a lot of things ending with um so there’s there’s there’s inimicum no that’s a spell maybe the um ending is like a root it tells someone to do something but then Protego Totalum is also a spell and there it just means total and I should just learn Latin sometime it always sounds so grand like French always sounds so elegant and my language sounds like well I don’t know how my language sounds I haven’t actually ever spoken it yet and but the point is that Latin sounds grand Sanskrit sounds grand of course I once referred to them as grandmother tongues and people laughed yes it was good and also accurate I like to think of Sanskrit as my grandmother and anyway the point is that there’s something about the sound um that makes the sound ium sound so nice even Sanskrit has a lot of words ending in um in it so like the conclusion is that if you want your thing to sound grand you should have names ending in um Tantalum could I name my thing Tantalum no that’s also real and sometimes I think my memory screws with my imagination anyway the point is what is the point I should learn German no I know German I should learn Sindarin or Latin or maybe Sanskrit or maybe just work on my language to make some provision so that the um ending sounds grand in my language I know what to do I should use the um ending to name really grand things in my language like which I guess stars or planets or maybe something like scientific stuff science is grand like elements of course the point was I need a way of naming elements that makes them sound grand yess it all started with elements so which word did I begin with was it Matium or Matum or something it was Natum Natium I said no to Natium but I could work with Natum or maybe Natyum why does that sound familiar Bharatnatyam oh my God you were telling me something about Bharatnatyam and no I was listening I was totally paying attention yes I was.