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Following that train of thought back one can go all the way to the Roman Empire which used slaves as proto machines as you call them. >As a funny personal note
by animal531 2y ago
Following that train of thought back one can go all the way to the Roman Empire which used slaves as proto machines as you call them.
>As a funny personal note: one of my ancestors actually had the last name (Polish budzik) translated as “alarm clock,” which I assume means they had a similar sort of job as knocker uppers. I couldn’t find any equivalent last names in English though.
Surnames are funny, I always thought we had a cool one, but apparently it just means someone that lives next to a hedge.
- mglz 2y ago> Following that train of thought back one can go all the way to the Roman Empire which used slaves as proto machines as you call them. All the way to the deepest depth of history actually: Sumer and Elam left behind records of slavery and later on in Ur we find laws seting up a framework for slavery.
- riehwvfbk 2y agoThe "alarm clock" surname is pretty cool though if you know this factoid: the word for waking up in Slavic languages is the same as the Sanskrit root "budh", which also means "to wake". So Buddha is "the one who has awakened".
- keiferski 2y agoThat is super cool. Thanks for the factoid!