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What about 'robot' and 'bot'? The word robot means 'slave worker'. How about payment providers supporting Mastercard? Maybe we ought to stop accepting Masterca

What about 'robot' and 'bot'? The word robot means 'slave worker'. How about payment providers supporting Mastercard? Maybe we ought to stop accepting Mastercard payment, unless they rebrand to Equalitycard.

omega3 6y ago
> The word robot means 'slave worker'. Do you have the source for this? I'd be very surprised if this was the meaning of the word at the time Karel Capek used it. The world robot comes from slavic word robota which means work or hard work.
- kostadin 6y ago
  The root of the word is ‘rob’ which means a slave. Robota is ‘slave work’.
- raspyberr 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R. That's the play that introduced it and it's looking like the word means "forced labour" rather than just "work". Which you could say is slavery.
  - omega3 6y ago
    This might be the historical meaning of the word but it's certainly not the meaning of the word today and I'm doubting it was the meaning of the world at the time of the author. Take this as an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotnik_(1894%E2%80%931939) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotnik_(1894%E2%80%931939) This newspaper was first published around the time of the authors life. It has no connection to the slavery just to the labour and labourers.
    - illvm 6y ago
      You cannot be serious about your argument while still being supportive of these changes.
- pandaman 6y ago
  "Robota" means just work now in many Slavic languages but in Czech it means "serfdom" if online dictionaries did not lie to me. And in all Slavic languages the word is derived from the proto-slavic https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orb%D1%8A https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/o... , slave so, if you apply Twitter's logic here then it has to be banned because it literally contains the word "slave" (rob).

omega3 6y ago

> The word robot means 'slave worker'. Do you have the source for this? I'd be very surprised if this was the meaning of the word at the time Karel Capek used it. The world robot comes from slavic word robota which means work or hard work.

kostadin 6y ago
The root of the word is ‘rob’ which means a slave. Robota is ‘slave work’.
raspyberr 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R. That's the play that introduced it and it's looking like the word means "forced labour" rather than just "work". Which you could say is slavery.
- omega3 6y ago
  This might be the historical meaning of the word but it's certainly not the meaning of the word today and I'm doubting it was the meaning of the world at the time of the author. Take this as an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotnik_(1894%E2%80%931939) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotnik_(1894%E2%80%931939) This newspaper was first published around the time of the authors life. It has no connection to the slavery just to the labour and labourers.
  - illvm 6y ago
    You cannot be serious about your argument while still being supportive of these changes.
pandaman 6y ago
"Robota" means just work now in many Slavic languages but in Czech it means "serfdom" if online dictionaries did not lie to me. And in all Slavic languages the word is derived from the proto-slavic https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orb%D1%8A https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/o... , slave so, if you apply Twitter's logic here then it has to be banned because it literally contains the word "slave" (rob).