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Re: [lojban] black boxes
My efforts FWIW ...
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:30:04PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> "black box" in English has at least three meanings:
> 1. black box (xekri tanxe)
lo xekri tanxe
> 2. a recorder in an airplane (narju tanxe, some sort of vreji)
lo veizba be fi lo vijdatni
> 3. a device whose internals are unknown.
lo vasru be lo tolsau
There are probably other meanings similar to 1 but for other uses of the
word 'box'. e.g. there might be a piece of equipment used in cricket
which would be a "xekri ke plibu bandu".
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Richard.
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