5 February 2001 Czechs are rightly proud to claim original ownership of the word “robot,” which entered the English language via a play by Karel Capek. Czechs are far less proud of another Czech word that, yes, existed in the English language, but usually had other connotations before it started to spring up in Prague […]
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