Joerg Pietschmann wrote:
Ben Laurie wrote:
Stanislaw Lem was actually Polish. And has anyone mentioned he coined the word "robot" (it's Polish for "worker").
The last one isn't correct. The originator of the word "robot" was a czech guy named Karel Capek: http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/projects/actipret/robot.html
"robota--" in slavic languages means "to work", so whether from Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, etc..., it's all the same source.
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