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In Russian, работа simply means "work" or "job" without any negative connotation.
by siftrics 3y ago
In Russian, работа simply means "work" or "job" without any negative connotation.
- tomashubelbauer 3y agoSame with Polish, but in Czech where the word originates from, there is a difference and normal work is called "práce" not "robota" which is reserved for forced labor or as an in-jest name for work.
- andrewshadura 3y agoIn Slovak, robota is apparently more like in Polish, it's commonly used to mean a job, sometimes as manual work, only historically for forced labour.
- hippich 3y agoYet "раб" is translated as "slave"..
- WesolyKubeczek 3y agoIn Bulgarian, a slave is „роб”.
- meepmorp 3y agoRussian isn't Czech and there are a lot of false cognates between the two.
- pvg 3y agoThese aren't false cognates though, they're actual cognates. Cognates can have different meanings. You might be thinking of 'false friends'.
- torstenvl 3y agoMy absolute favorite false cognate is 'arraigned' (English) vs. 'araignée' (French). Arraignments would be far more nervewracking if they significantly involved spiders.
- yread 3y agoI like vonet and pachnout
- hirsin 3y agoInterestingly, 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.