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In the region where I was growing up next to Poland, we say "chodit do roboty" when describing normal work.

• tomashubelbauer 3y ago
  A lot of Czech people use this phrase in a very subtle, almost undetectable jest, but it is still fundamentally in jest. Drawing a connection between having to work for a living and likening it to being forced to work. It's similar to saying "Back to the salt mines" meaning back to work.
• WesolyKubeczek 3y ago
  It cannot be helped if your práce feels much like robota. Which, granted, happens a lot.
• rebolek 3y ago
  I don't doubt that, you're probably from somewhere around Ostrava. There are of course regional differences. I'm from Brno and instead of "jít do práce" we usually used "jít do hokny", "jít do háčku", or just "jít makat". Whenever I hear word "robota", I connect it with my grand-grand-...-father who was forced to work ("robota") by "dráb" (overseer) and didn't like it. So he cut overseer's head with his scythe, became a village hero and founded a church there. So I'm hard-wired to dislike "robota".
  • _a_a_a_ 3y ago
    > So he cut overseer's head with his scythe, became a village hero and founded a church there do go on, sounds like quite a story in there.
  • oli-g 3y ago
    I did not expect to read hantec on HN today. Enough internet and about time for a škopek I guess.
• kgeist 3y ago
  Reminds of the Russian "chodit na rabotu".