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- From: tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston)
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- jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Leavitt) writes:
- : >Isn't "robot" from the Slavic root for "worker".
- :
- : Actually, I believe it is from the Russian word "rabotnik" == worker,
- Nope, it's from the Czech; a book `RUR' by Karel \v{C}apek,
- title short for "Rustum's Universal Robots" --- I don't know
- the exact Czech form. The Russian, by the way, is spelled
- with a Russian o as first vowel, only pronounced `a' because
- it's before the stress. OK to transliterate as `rabotnik',
- I suppose, but only if you write the Russian president's given
- name as `Baris' --- the same shift happens there.
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- Tim
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