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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: Robots
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 02:20:39 GMT
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Not so very long ago, etg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (Edmund Grimley-Evans) said...

>I looked in an on-line library catalogue but found no evidence of
>Karel Capek having written anything in English.

  I believe that the play "R.U.R." was originally written in Czech, and 
translated into English, so that the newlogism "robot" was copied by the 
translator.

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