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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Nov 2017

      Robot trivia for linguists: is there a reason robota and arbeit are more closely related than pracovat?

      3 replies 5 retweets 4 likes
    2. Grim Grinning Gwyntaglaw‏ @Gwyntaglaw 29 Nov 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel

      Excellent question. I don’t have an answer, though I can guess at the shape of it. “Pracovat” and its W. Slavic cognates likely stem from a different PIE root altogether.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Nov 2017
      Replying to @Gwyntaglaw

      OK, so I'm not crazy? I was just explaining to spouse that robota is still the word in Russian but somehow the Czechs, who gave us the word, ditched it.

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. YK  🌊 🌊 🌊‏ @YK_FL_Tweets 29 Nov 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @Gwyntaglaw

      Robota is Slovak, praca in Czech

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    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Nov 2017
      Replying to @YK_FL_Tweets @Gwyntaglaw

      Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't robota the historical work in Czech? I guess I'm interested in when they ditched it, as compared to 1920 RUR publication.

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    6. YK  🌊 🌊 🌊‏ @YK_FL_Tweets 29 Nov 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @Gwyntaglaw

      Not sure,but what I know that praca was used much more in Czech republic. I'm Slovakian and we used word robota more, then praca.

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    7. Anne Jamison‏ @prof_anne 29 Nov 2017
      Replying to @YK_FL_Tweets @emptywheel @Gwyntaglaw

      práce is from the Old Czech, and when I say "Blame Jungmann" it is because during the National Revival when he and Dobrovsky were setting out to recreate the literary language, they often went back to old forms

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    8. Anne Jamison‏ @prof_anne 29 Nov 2017
      Replying to @prof_anne @emptywheel @Gwyntaglaw

      RUR's actual Czech title is "Rossum's Universal Robots" (in English)--so it comes from the Czech play but in a weird way via English. So "Robots" is doubly coded as foreign in the original--contrary to the "make everything authentic and old" traditional Czech linguistics

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 29 Nov 2017
      Replying to @prof_anne @Gwyntaglaw

      My favorite linguistic moment ever was when a young women (b. 1979?) I was on a tram with said "happy endink" unironically.

      7:49 PM - 29 Nov 2017
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        1. Anne Jamison‏ @prof_anne 29 Nov 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @Gwyntaglaw

          I love the -ink ending in any context

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