One tablespoon of shoyu contains an average of 750mg of natrium. So yea, it can create severe health-related problem if you overused it.

Rathurue said:

natrium

You mean salt?

Natrium = sodium. Hence symbol Na.

Tried that 2 days ago, no doubt that I'll be trying it again sometime.

279okshap said:

Natrium = sodium. Hence symbol Na.

In pseudo-Latin, however. This use has deprecated in modern English (it's generally only found in older technical texts).

We don't call iron, tin, gold, and mercury as ferrum, stannum, aurum or hydrargyrum, now do we?

NNescio said:

In pseudo-Latin, however. This use has deprecated in modern English (it's generally only found in older technical texts).

We don't call iron, tin, gold, and mercury as ferrum, stannum, aurum or hydrargyrum, now do we?

Dangit, I've revealed my age! *tosses smoke bombs*

NNescio said:

In pseudo-Latin, however. This use has deprecated in modern English (it's generally only found in older technical texts).

We don't call iron, tin, gold, and mercury as ferrum, stannum, aurum or hydrargyrum, now do we?

Except in Japan, they do say ナトリウム (Natoryumu, Natrium).

SumeragiAkeiko said:

Except in Japan, they do say ナトリウム (Natoryumu, Natrium).

But we weren't talking in Japanese, were we?

(or German/Malay/Indonesian or a few other languages which just borrowed the Neo-Latin word.)

Indonesian just use "salt" (in their native language). Makes it sound less poisonous.
Probably from Indian vocabulary but not derived from Latin.

Seika said:

Indonesian just use "salt" (in their native language). Makes it sound less poisonous.
Probably from Indian vocabulary but not derived from Latin.

You mean 'Garam'? It's probably taken from latin's 'Garum', but...It's a different thing than salt, so...who knows?

Seika said:

Indonesian just use "salt" (in their native language). Makes it sound less poisonous.
Probably from Indian vocabulary but not derived from Latin.

Garam can also refer to other salts (in the chemistry sense) though.