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From: Ted Dunning
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:18

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In article <kfN6R9O00WB51Zmmsg@andrew.cmu.edu> John Robert Leavitt <jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

   >:  Actually, I believe it is from the Russian word "rabotnik" == worker,
   >
   >The Russian, by the way, is spelled
   >with a Russian o as first vowel, only pronounced `a' because
   >it's before the stress.  OK to transliterate as `rabotnik',
   >I suppose, but only if you write the Russian president's given
   >name as `Baris' --- the same shift happens there.

   Um, excuse me, but no.  The Russian word is spelled "AIR" "AH" "BEH"
   "OH" "TEH" "EN" "EE" "KAH".  I know about the pesky unstressed vowel

	...

   Follow-ups to alt.language.russian.pedantic

uhhh... 

robot is derived from the *czech* word robotnik (same alphabet.. you
decide if it is transliterated correctly).  carel capek was czech.
R.U.R. was a *czech* play.

it doesn't matter how you would write it in russian.

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