On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:19:55 -0500 Serge Knystautas 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.
Aha. Makes sense. Thank you, folks. labor -> raborta -> robota ... -> robot ... nice transformation/transliteration. ;-) -- By the way, we (japanese) can not distinguish "r" from "l", because our language does not have such a difference. This prevents us from learning (mastering) european languages, indeed.... Very sad. Sincerely, -- Tetsuya. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
