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Re:A Man Who Coined the Word "Robot" Defends Himself by meepmorp on Monday January 22, 2024 @09:57AM (#39090127)
Russian isn't Czech and there are a lot of false cognates between the two.
Re:A Man Who Coined the Word "Robot" Defends Himself by pvg on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:34AM (#39091436)
These aren't false cognates though, they're actual cognates. Cognates can have different meanings. You might be thinking of 'false friends'.
Re:A Man Who Coined the Word "Robot" Defends Himself by torstenvl on Monday January 22, 2024 @12:01PM (#39091871)
My absolute favorite false cognate is 'arraigned' (English) vs. 'araignée' (French).

Arraignments would be far more nervewracking if they significantly involved spiders.

Re:A Man Who Coined the Word "Robot" Defends Himself by yread on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:19PM (#39094052)
I like vonet and pachnout
Re:A Man Who Coined the Word "Robot" Defends Himself by hirsin on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:31PM (#39094199)
Interestingly, the Chernobyl liquidators forced to clean the roof were referred to as robots. I think the TV series expanded that to "bio robots", but books about the incident from tbe nineties simply used robot.