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klohto on May 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

FYI, the robot and rabota are pretty close due to ‘robota’ meaning work in old Czech.

severak_cz on May 14, 2020 [–]

this is exactly how it was invented.

Also - "robot" was not invented Karel Čapek but his brother Josef. Karel was looking for good word describing mechanical workers for his theatre play called RUR.

malkia on May 14, 2020 | [–]

Didn't know that - Thanks!

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