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...and nobody in the valley seems to be aware of the etymology for "slave" :)
by sennight 6y ago
...and nobody in the valley seems to be aware of the etymology for "slave" :)
- 3saryHg6LP2e 6y agoOr "robot"/"bot".
- sennight 6y agoWell I think heavy industry will do better weathering the wave of tech articles helpfully suggesting laughable solutions to non-problems. They don't share the same weakness to slacktivist pull-requests.
- benrbray 6y agoFor the lazy, here [1,2] are some wiktionary links. Assuming these are correct, wow, this makes the whole main vs master thing seem even more silly. > SLAVE: From Middle English, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclāvus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclāvus (“Slav”), because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages.[1][2][3][4][5] The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), see that entry and Slav for more. > ROBOT: Borrowed from Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef, and taken into English without change. [1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slave#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slave#Etymology [2]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robot#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robot#Etymology
- sennight 6y agoWell that ruins the fun of the surprise a little... but I guess people can still look forward to real plot twist: who the "masters" were. Hint: it wasn't the Moops!
- krainboltgreene 6y agoBecause it doesn't matter. Slavery isn't an just an old concept.
- sennight 6y agoWhat, so now words don't matter? Funny how that works, if only somebody pointed this out in the very beginning...