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RE: Poetry
July 22, 2009 at 3:22 pm
(July 22, 2009 at 1:09 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Lol I like it. It's funny and weird.

I was thinking that perhaps I should change "Robots" to machines since that's more general and it works well with the 'might' and 'malfunction', with the 'm's.

EvF

EvF,

Given the etymology of the word I would leave it as is:

The word robot comes from the word robota meaning literally serf labor, and, figuratively, "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech, Slovak and Polish. The origin of the word is the Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude" ("work" in contemporary Russian), which in turn comes from the Indo-European root *orbh-. Robot is cognate with the German word Arbeiter (worker).

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek

I think it is more picturesque even though it is a bit esoteric. Servitude to a mechanistic universe?

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Poetry - by Demonaura - March 26, 2009 at 5:49 am
RE: Poetry - by dagda - March 26, 2009 at 11:58 am
RE: Poetry - by leo-rcc - March 26, 2009 at 1:17 pm
RE: Poetry - by bozo - March 26, 2009 at 3:41 pm
RE: Poetry - by dagda - March 27, 2009 at 9:33 am
RE: Poetry - by WWLD - March 26, 2009 at 4:50 pm
RE: Poetry - by Demonaura - March 27, 2009 at 11:40 am
RE: Poetry - by Giff - April 7, 2009 at 6:04 am
RE: Poetry - by Edwardo Piet - April 7, 2009 at 8:16 am
RE: Poetry - by Giff - May 11, 2009 at 8:25 am
RE: Poetry - by etogre - May 13, 2009 at 2:43 pm
RE: Poetry - by Edwardo Piet - May 13, 2009 at 2:54 pm
RE: Poetry - by Demonaura - May 29, 2009 at 7:06 am
RE: Poetry - by Tabby - May 29, 2009 at 3:03 pm
RE: Poetry - by Giff - May 30, 2009 at 4:01 am
RE: Poetry - by Tabby - May 30, 2009 at 12:39 pm
RE: Poetry - by Giff - May 31, 2009 at 4:46 am
RE: Poetry - by Edwardo Piet - July 22, 2009 at 12:30 pm
RE: Poetry - by Rhizomorph13 - July 22, 2009 at 12:48 pm
RE: Poetry - by Edwardo Piet - July 22, 2009 at 1:09 pm
RE: Poetry - by Rhizomorph13 - July 22, 2009 at 3:22 pm
RE: Poetry - by Overmars - July 22, 2009 at 1:58 pm
RE: Poetry - by Edwardo Piet - July 22, 2009 at 4:40 pm
RE: Poetry - by fr0d0 - July 22, 2009 at 5:13 pm
RE: Poetry - by Edwardo Piet - July 22, 2009 at 5:55 pm

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