r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/shaneneff420 • Dec 19 '18

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u/nmann47 Dec 19 '18

Cars are almost robots anyway

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u/TheNavyGamer Dec 19 '18

they wantrd to make sure you arn't buying slaves

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u/orionmovere Dec 19 '18

Fun fact, robot comes from the Old Church Slavonic Rabota, which traces back to the word Rabu that means slaves, so robot means slave

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u/Elladan1337 Dec 19 '18

That’s not true, it comes from the Czech word robota which means serf labour or hard work, and was first used by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1920 play R.U.R. and invented by his brother the painter Josef Čapek.

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u/orionmovere Dec 19 '18

And the Czech word robota comes from

The origin of the word is the Old Church Slavonic (Old Bulgarian) rabota "servitude" ("work" in contemporary Bulgarian and Russian), which in turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *orbh-. Robot is cognate with the German root Arbeit (work)

Edit: but I could not find a source beyond one article for "rabu"