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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't robot Polish?

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Scribbd@feddit.nl 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can see it. There are a few tropes that come to mind:

  • Robot is unique and alone
  • Robots outlive their creators/creating civilization
  • Robots discarded after their usefulness expired

And looking into the etymology of orphan makes it even clearer. Robots are often depicted as being dereft of rights, feelings etc.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

It’s more because it comes from slave (arbeiten is also related), and both slaves and orphans deal with status changes, but that’s a lot more similarities than I had :)