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See: [[User:Ganaram inukshuk/TAMNAMS Extension]]

== Naming mosses ==

The following is a proposed guide for naming mosses, based on patterns gleamed from existing mosses. There are~~, of course,~~ exceptions to these rules.

The following is a proposed guide for naming mosses, based on patterns gleamed from existing mosses. There are also exceptions to these rules.

# Names for single-period mosses with 5 or fewer notes are the most general names ~~in the sense that they're~~ not limited to an octave ~~period~~ and end with -ic or -al. These should be the only mosses that contain the anti- prefix, shortened to an-.

# Names for single-period mosses with 5 or fewer notes are the most general names, not limited to an equivalence interval of an octave, and end with -ic or -al. These should be the only mosses that contain the anti- prefix, shortened to an-.

## Monowood is an exception in that it does not end with -ic or -al.

# Names for single-period mosses not of the form 1L ns end with -tonic, suggesting that these are octave-specific and reference a specific interval, or a notable pre-TAMNAMS or other temperament-agnostic name.

## Temperament-based names may be justified if it applies to a mos with a sufficiently narrow generator range, or if no other naming options are available. Such names should end with -oid.

## Mosh, semiquartal, balzano, and pine are exceptions to this rule~~, as are temperament-based names~~.

## Mosh, semiquartal, balzano, and pine are exceptions to this rule.

# Single-period mosses of the form 1L ns with 6 or more notes are named after minerals and gemstones.

## This requires renaming existing mosses, namely antimachinoid, antipine, antisubneutralic, and antisinatonic.

# Multi-period mos names should bear the -ic suffix.

## All of the wood mosses are exceptions to this rule, as are lemon, lime, and tcherepnin.

# With the exception of mosses named under rule 1, mosses ~~shouldn't have~~ additional prefixes, such as anti-, sub-, or super-, ~~nor~~ should ~~such mosses share~~ the same word stem unless the mosses in question are related ~~somehow~~.

# With the exception of mosses named under rule 1, mosses should avoid having additional prefixes if possible, such as anti-, sub-, or super-, and mosses should avoid sharing the same word stem unless the mosses in question are related in some way.

## Sets of mosses that share a relationship with one another include the following: subaric, jaric, and taric; monowood, biwood, triwood, tetrawood, pentawood; antidiatonic and diatonic (in that they're sister mosses)

~~## Semiquartal is an exception to the no-prefixes rule because event though it bears the semi- prefix, its mosprefix is chton-.~~

=== Changes to ~~exiting~~ names ===

=== Changes to existing names ===

This section describes changes to existing [[TAMNAMS]] names that I would make, given the proposal described in the previous section and the following reasons:

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|At the time of writing, there were two names. I would have favored zaltertic over dicoid in that it removes a name that suggests a temperament.

|Central zalzalian thirds (another name for neutral thirds) are not the scale's bright generator, but are produced by the scale.

'''With the removal of "zaltertic", "dicoid" is currently the only recognized name for this mos, ~~making it hard to justify~~ this ~~change~~.'''

'''With the removal of "zaltertic", "dicoid" is currently the only recognized name for this mos, nullifying this suggestion.'''

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 See: [[User:Ganaram inukshuk/TAMNAMS Extension]]
 == Naming mosses ==
-The following is a proposed guide for naming mosses, based on patterns gleamed from existing mosses. There are, of course, exceptions to these rules.
+The following is a proposed guide for naming mosses, based on patterns gleamed from existing mosses. There are also exceptions to these rules.
-# Names for single-period mosses with 5 or fewer notes are the most general names in the sense that they're not limited to an octave period and end with -ic or -al. These should be the only mosses that contain the anti- prefix, shortened to an-.
+# Names for single-period mosses with 5 or fewer notes are the most general names, not limited to an equivalence interval of an octave, and end with -ic or -al. These should be the only mosses that contain the anti- prefix, shortened to an-.
 ## Monowood is an exception in that it does not end with -ic or -al.
 # Names for single-period mosses not of the form 1L ns end with -tonic, suggesting that these are octave-specific and reference a specific interval, or a notable pre-TAMNAMS or other temperament-agnostic name.
 ## Temperament-based names may be justified if it applies to a mos with a sufficiently narrow generator range, or if no other naming options are available. Such names should end with -oid.
-## Mosh, semiquartal, balzano, and pine are exceptions to this rule, as are temperament-based names.
+## Mosh, semiquartal, balzano, and pine are exceptions to this rule.
 # Single-period mosses of the form 1L ns with 6 or more notes are named after minerals and gemstones.
 ## This requires renaming existing mosses, namely antimachinoid, antipine, antisubneutralic, and antisinatonic.
 # Multi-period mos names should bear the -ic suffix.
 ## All of the wood mosses are exceptions to this rule, as are lemon, lime, and tcherepnin.
-# With the exception of mosses named under rule 1, mosses shouldn't have additional prefixes, such as anti-, sub-, or super-, nor should such mosses share the same word stem unless the mosses in question are related somehow.
+# With the exception of mosses named under rule 1, mosses should avoid having additional prefixes if possible, such as anti-, sub-, or super-, and mosses should avoid sharing the same word stem unless the mosses in question are related in some way.
 ## Sets of mosses that share a relationship with one another include the following: subaric, jaric, and taric; monowood, biwood, triwood, tetrawood, pentawood; antidiatonic and diatonic (in that they're sister mosses)
-## Semiquartal is an exception to the no-prefixes rule because event though it bears the semi- prefix, its mosprefix is chton-.
-=== Changes to exiting names ===
+=== Changes to existing names ===
 This section describes changes to existing [[TAMNAMS]] names that I would make, given the proposal described in the previous section and the following reasons:
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 |At the time of writing, there were two names. I would have favored zaltertic over dicoid in that it removes a name that suggests a temperament.
 |Central zalzalian thirds (another name for neutral thirds) are not the scale's bright generator, but are produced by the scale.
-'''With the removal of "zaltertic", "dicoid" is currently the only recognized name for this mos, making it hard to justify this change.'''
+'''With the removal of "zaltertic", "dicoid" is currently the only recognized name for this mos, nullifying this suggestion.'''
 |-
 |2L 6s