From richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com Sat Sep 15 15:03:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 15 Sep 2001 22:03:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 12237 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 21:53:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Sep 2001 21:53:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scrabble.freeuk.net) (212.126.144.6) by mta2 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 21:53:55 -0000 Received: from du-009-0108.freeuk.com ([212.126.152.108] helo=rrbcurnow.freeuk.com) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 15iNNn-0005YM-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:53:53 +0100 Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 2.02 #2) id 15iNFD-0000CV-00; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:44:59 +0100 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:44:59 +0100 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] black boxes Message-ID: <20010915224459.D633@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <0109141330040G.01268@neofelis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i-nntp In-Reply-To: <0109141330040G.01268@neofelis>; from phma@oltronics.net on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:30:04PM -0400 From: Richard Curnow 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". -- Richard. ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Richard P. Curnow | C++: n., An octopus made by Weston-super-Mare, UK | nailing extra legs on a cat. http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/ |