robot
What did robot mean before it meant a machine?
What do you notice?
English, a machine in stories
robot
Czech: forced labour
robota
The play borrowed an old word for work extracted from someone.
Robot sounds modern. It is just over a hundred years old as this word.
In Czech, robota already meant forced labour. The play gave that old word a new job.
If you see a robot toy, remember the older meaning is work taken from someone. The play was not selling gadgets.
You can stop here. The word already moved.
Go find a traveling word
The screen was the door.
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