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In Czech robota means more along the lines of "manual labor" not slavery. It has a connotation of drudgery and tedium though. Edit: The related word Robotnik (
by HideousKojima 7y ago
In Czech robota means more along the lines of "manual labor" not slavery. It has a connotation of drudgery and tedium though.
Edit: The related word Robotnik (like the villain in Sonic) means something like "serf" though
- colechristensen 7y agoWhen such words were really in use though, how much was the manual labor a result of choice or freedom of the laborer?
- HideousKojima 7y ago"Robota" is still in regular use in modern Czech. And when R.U.R. was written (1920) the days of serfdom were pretty far in the past for Czechs (abolished in 1848).
- xyzzyz 7y agoIn Polish, robotnik means just a physical laborer, there's no negative connotation at all.