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To: EEGator
We need to find a label for black holes that does not sound racist.

I went to the Wikipedia entry for "black hole" and then checked out some other languages to see if anything sounded better.

In French it would be "trou noir."

In Indonesian it would be "Lubang hitam."

In Basque it would be "Zulo beltz."

In Turkish it would be "Kara delik."

I kind of like Kara delik. Someone who goes crazy thinking about black holes would be psycho delik.

29 posted on 03/25/2016 6:53:38 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
In French it would be "trou noir." In Indonesian it would be "Lubang hitam." In Basque it would be "Zulo beltz." In Turkish it would be "Kara delik."

I believe in yer Asiarean their known as "gangnam style."

A course, those guys don't get along with yer ebonicites, so ya might wanna keep lookin'.

34 posted on 03/25/2016 7:11:12 PM PDT by papertyger (-/\/\/\-)
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