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| 25 JAN 2003 at 12:31am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Word Warriors and Insightful Linguists, Where Art Thou? This one's for you
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| 25 JAN 2003 at 2:31am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Well, they're all Czech - Robot is the newest in the list...
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| 25 JAN 2003 at 2:51am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (25 JAN 2003 2:31am)
Well, they're all Czech - Robot is the newest in the list...
Very good indeed Are you an Insightful Linguist too?
Now we just need to know what the original Czech words were and what they meant... and I cross checked it with a US dictionary last night so I know the information is out there
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| 25 JAN 2003 at 3:12am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Are you an Insightful Linguist too
I hate to disappoint you, but nope... Although words are interesting.
Howitzer=haufnice (a catapult that slung many stones at once )
Pistol=p ít'ala (pipe, whistle or firearm)
Robot=robota (servitude or forced labor)
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| 25 JAN 2003 at 3:15am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By MichalN (25 JAN 2003 2:50am)
Very good indeed Are you an Insightful Linguist too?
it's obvious those words were not randomly picked :
Now we just need to know what the original Czech words were and what they meant... and I cross checked it with a US dictionary last night so I know the information is out there
but i'll come up with some greek origin words pretty soon to get my revenge!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 25 JAN 2003 at 3:17am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Aya_Brea (25 JAN 2003 3:14am)
it's obvious those words were not randomly picked :
You are an insightful linguist
but i'll come up with some greek origin words pretty soon to get my revenge!
Looking forward to it!
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| 25 JAN 2003 at 3:18am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | it's obvious those words were not randomly picked
Yeah, I had the same thought - shame on you MichalN...
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| 25 JAN 2003 at 3:44am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (25 JAN 2003 3:17am)
Yeah, I had the same thought - shame on you MichalN...
i meant the "insightful linguist" though!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 25 JAN 2003 at 3:49am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (25 JAN 2003 3:17am)
Yeah, I had the same thought - shame on you MichalN...
I'm not sure we all mean the same words here; I think Panayotis meant the words "Insightful Linguist", is that correct?
Anyway more on the origins.
1. "Houfnice" is the original Czech word, although what exactly it meant is unclear. It could have been a catapult or ot may have been a short cannon. "Houf" means something like "bunch" but it was also a designation of a military unit (like a platoon or something).
2. "Pistala" is "whistle" and this was a word for a handheld firearm. It is unclear whether the name referred to the fact that the weapon looked like a whistle (short metal barrel on a long wooden stem) or the whistling sound the bullets made (they were subsonic I think).
3. "Robot" is pretty clear. "Robota" is hard manual labor, especially forced. The word was invented by playwright and novelist Karel Capek for his play that described a struggle between humans and what we'd today call androids.
PS: Panayotis, I'm sure about half the words in use today are of Greek origin so please don't try to find all of them
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