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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>

"black box" in English has at least three meanings:
1. black box (xekri tanxe)
2. a recorder in an airplane (narju tanxe, some sort of vreji)
3. a device whose internals are unknown.

How should we translate the idioms?

phma