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minus-squareClay_pidgin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·7 months agoWritten by the Czech Karel Čapek in the play Rossum’s Universal Robots
minus-squareidiomaddict@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9·7 months agoIt’s got a common root with orphan, somehow
minus-squareScribbd@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 months agoI can see it. There are a few tropes that come to mind: Robot is unique and alone Robots outlive their creators/creating civilization Robots discarded after their usefulness expired And looking into the etymology of orphan makes it even clearer. Robots are often depicted as being dereft of rights, feelings etc.
minus-squareidiomaddict@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 months agoIt’s more because it comes from slave (arbeiten is also related), and both slaves and orphans deal with status changes, but that’s a lot more similarities than I had :)
Isn’t robot Polish?
It’s Czech
Written by the Czech Karel Čapek in the play Rossum’s Universal Robots
It’s got a common root with orphan, somehow
I can see it. There are a few tropes that come to mind:
And looking into the etymology of orphan makes it even clearer. Robots are often depicted as being dereft of rights, feelings etc.
It’s more because it comes from slave (arbeiten is also related), and both slaves and orphans deal with status changes, but that’s a lot more similarities than I had :)