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[lojban] Biological taxonomy and other 'esoteric' vocabularies like chemical nomenclature



I noticed under the words list that there are some very preliminary attempts to 'lojbanize' (or 'lojbanise' depending on where you are from) nomenclature systems like taxonomic names and chemical compounds (as in IUPAC).  How exactly does one approach discussing such topics in Lojban and at this point is there any consensus?  Are there proposed 'special systems' like there is for mathematics (I imagine there will have to be).

I assume these things will eventually have to be 'lojbanized' as the language grows (and theoretically/hopefully is used by more people in more situations) and although nomenclature systems like IUPAC are global standards names still very by language and orthography (honestly I don't really know exactly how chemical nomenclature works in non-English speaking countries; my understanding is that most countries now default to 'English' nomenclature now, there is still a Spanish, Japanese, Chinese IUPAC equivalent).  'Technically' speaking, taxonomic nomenclature isn't even singularly regulated under one convention (I would use ITIS as a reference point if an attempt was ever made to lojbanize taxonomy).  

Anyway, IF there was a consensus that there is a need to discuss such things natively in lojban (rather than defaulting to English IUPAC or some form of Roman alphabet based linnaean taxonomy) something would have to change because non lojban characters, pronounciation, pairs etc. exist in these systems, so unless lojban speakers would use some sort of tag to say: "default to English IUPAC" or similar (which seems rather malglico to me), the system would have to change.

Idk, I am a junior undergraduate biology major so I don't even pretend to have some sort of truly esoteric understanding of such things, so I hope someone with more knowledge of both lojban and the natural sciences exists somewhere in the community that could answer this or at least discuss/share ideas about this.

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