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On 8 March 2012 18:08, RexScientiarum <amt2839@gmail.com> wrote:
Right, I was thing about that and after I made the post and came to the sam= e conclusion, that the translations were in a general, non linnaean sense.<= div class=3D"im">

On Thursday, March 8, 2012 3:50:13 AM UTC-6, Arnt = Richard Johansen wrote:

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 02:43:07PM -0800, RexScientiarum wrote:
> > I HAD assumed that taxonomy, at least, would be treated in one of tho= se two
> ways (because, as you said, it is always treated as a forei= gn language,
> hence why it is italicized in print or *supposed *to be underlined whe= n
> handwritten) but it looks as if other community members have alr= eady begun
> to lojbanize taxonomic names so I thought MAYBE there i= s some feeling that
> there is a need to lojbanize biological classification for whatever re= ason
> (which is why I ask, and I thought maybe there was some feeli= ng that the
> current Linnaean method based primarily on Latin and s= ome Greek and written
> in the Roman alphabet wasn't a universal, culturally/scientificall= y
> unbiased method. Idk, just trying to understand/rationalize why = someone
> thought there had to be a lojban name for eubacteria {fadj= urme} and the
> like).
I think the idea is that a language needs ordinary terms for = species (ie. words like =93bullfinch=94, not words like =93Pyrrhula pyrrhul= a=94). In the cases were a gismu is not adequate, a new word needs to be cr= eated, and the word needs to come from somewhere. Often, the scientific nam= e is an easily available source to make a new word from. That doesn't m= ean that the new word is a _translation_ or _corresponds with_ or _is used = the same way as_ the Linnean binomial, just that it's based on that ter= m, rather than a word from some particular language.

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