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1. Erwin+JA[view] [source] 2020-05-13 21:49:55
>>turtle+(OP)
Very impressive. It was reminiscent of the Polish sci-fi writer, Stanislaw Lem who invented more words than Shakespeare. That made for some tricky translations. Here's a list of new words in just one of the books alone:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Hal_Bregg_II/Neologisms_...

This 1961 book predicted what Lem calls "opton", an electronic book reader with only one page between the covers (Kindle Opton special for Lem's 100 year anniversary next year would be nice!)

I wonder if someone has created sci-fi short stories with that data set yet.

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2. malkia+C71[view] [source] 2020-05-14 01:50:01
>>Erwin+JA
And we owe the word "robot" to Karel Čapek (AFAIK). "Rabota" - means work in Bulgarian, and I guess similar in many other slavic languages.
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3. klohto+kB1[view] [source] 2020-05-14 06:33:00
>>malkia+C71
FYI, the robot and rabota are pretty close due to ‘robota’ meaning work in old Czech.
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4. severa+Gs2[view] [source] 2020-05-14 13:48:58
>>klohto+kB1
this is exactly how it was invented.

Also - "robot" was not invented Karel Čapek but his brother Josef. Karel was looking for good word describing mechanical workers for his theatre play called RUR.

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