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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Dec-2021 17:52:51 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   Everybody knows that "robot" comes from the Czech word for "worker".
   
   Everybody knows wrong, I realize now as I double-check this. The exact word "robot" was actually coined even in Czech for the play that brought the word into English, but it's derived from "robota", which is not just work in general but drudgework specifically.
   
   en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robot
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Dec-2021 18:02:19 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     I have always assumed that tATu's song "robot, robot, robot" is about how life is just work, work, work, but no, actually it's about a person who loves a robot. TIL because I looked up a translation. I don't know Russian!
     
     www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tatu/r…
     
     English lyrics video:
     
     invidious.osi.kr/watch?v=AqedX…
     
     www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqedXG…
     
     There is no official music video, which would have otherwise settled this 18 years ago.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Dec-2021 18:41:47 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Ton Zijlstra
     @ton Apparently "work" in Russian is "работа", and "робот" means nothing other than "robot".
     
     https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/работа#Russian
     https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/робот#Russian
   • Ton Zijlstra (ton@m.tzyl.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Dec-2021 18:41:48 UTC Ton Zijlstra

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     @clacke wasn't it serf or something in russian. Used for work and project in russian too afaik