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There are some interesting parallels, or common thread, in Czech culture: - The word "robot" (with its modern meaning) comes from a Czech play - Tradition of
by lioeters 5y ago
There are some interesting parallels, or common thread, in Czech culture:
- The word "robot" (with its modern meaning) comes from a Czech play
- Tradition of Czech animation
- Tradition of puppetry
All these are about "animating" in the classic sense of the word, to breathe life into something.
- myth_drannon 5y agoThe Golem of Prague as well.
- tut-urut-utut 5y agoGolem as “big”, as in some Slavic languages? Just kidding, but Golem might as well be one of the early Robot prototypes.
- asimpletune 5y agoThe words dollar and pistol are also Czech I believe.
- schoen 5y ago"Dollar" is named after a place that is now Czech, but from the German name for that place. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dollar#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dollar#Etymology
- rsj_hn 5y agoAlso “howitzer” is the English pronunciation of a Czech invention, houfnice, from the Hussite wars. They were the first to use firearms on a mass scale, arming peasants with pistols, long guns, and dragging artillery they designed in wagon carts. Was a real shocker to the medieval knights they were fighting.