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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Elrond wrote:
>kunti botpi ? (yuk!)
>botpi be noda ? (better...)
>botpi dacti ? (still the content problem)
>botpi be zi'o ? (better...)
>botpi be zi'o be'o dacti ? (I like this one, but it is long)

{kunti botpi} and {botpi be zi'o} both sound good to me. {botpi dacti} means a
thing that has something to do with bottles, such as a tag shaped like a
bottle, or a bottle rack. {botpi be noda} is confusing; it sounds like "a thing
such that there is nothing it is a bottle of".

I'd go with {kunti botpi}, with {botpi be zi'o} as an alternate if someone
insists "That's not an empty bottle since it's never been filled.", or some
such argument.

phma