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  1. Newsgroups: comp.robotics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver.technet.sg!nuscc!tim
  3. From: tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston)
  4. Subject: Re: A gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, a pack of wolves...
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan21.035045.27666@nuscc.nus.sg>
  6. Sender: usenet@nuscc.nus.sg
  7. Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
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  10. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 03:50:45 GMT
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  13. jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Leavitt) writes:
  14. : >Isn't "robot" from the Slavic root for "worker".
  15. : 
  16. : Actually, I believe it is from the Russian word "rabotnik" == worker, in
  17. : which case why not "a soyuz of robots" or "a union of robots."
  18. Adding to my last pedantic post:
  19. if you write "rabotnik" you should write "sayuz".
  20. Same before-stress o changing to a.
  21. Tim
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