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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by contravariant on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:32AM (#32725409)
Kind of interesting to note that 'work' (as in physical energy) and 'labour' use the same word in German.
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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by bombcar on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:11PM (#32727319)
Labor is just labora- latin for work.
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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by whatch on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:44AM (#32725605)
As in Russian (and I guess in Ukrainian).
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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by drran on Monday September 05, 2022 @12:33PM (#32726194)
In Ukrainian: work - робота, labour - праця.
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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by samber on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:39AM (#32725533)
in french too
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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by alangibson on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:40AM (#32725542)
Yea, but power is Kraft.
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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by _Microft on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:58AM (#32725773)
German "Kraft"[0] as physical term means "force" in English, while "power" translates as "Leistung"[1].

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leistung_(Physik)

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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by alangibson on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:42PM (#32729188)
Honestly they get mixed up just like in English.

Kraftwerk for power plant, Kraftstoff for fuel. But then you have elektrische Leistung for electrical power.

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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by selimthegrim on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:35PM (#32726899)
He is probably thinking in sense of “Atomkraft”
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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by inciampati on Monday September 05, 2022 @03:44PM (#32728502)
And English.

clarification: those words are 100% exact synonyms. (Native speaker, of American at least.)

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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by torotonnato on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:28PM (#32726816)
In Italian too (lavoro)
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Re:All poverty is energy poverty by kwhitefoot on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:21PM (#32726745)
And in English.
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