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My online Shakespeare glossary defines "mechanicals" (yes, with an 's') as "working-men".
Seems like an outlandish archaic word to me, as I haven't seen it in any other dictionaries.
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>>What do you mean<<
Oh, that beloved blubberer Bottom is one, that ass-headed lover of goddesses.
Archaic: Yes, but I saw it used recently somewhere or other, though, for life of me, I can't think where. And not to refer to drawings, either.
8th edition: and which are they up to now?
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I think I have seen mechanicals in pretty old science fiction to mean robots. Perhaps in translations of some Eastern European SF. And for some reason I am thinking here Czech writer(s) but that's a LONG time ago.
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The word "robot," I am given to understand, was indeed originated by a Czech writer, one Karel Kapek, in his play R.U.R., which stood for "Rossum's Universal Robots." I even read it once, a long day ago.
Asimov came later.
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Quote:
Asimov came later.
And gave us "robotics".
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The word "robot," I am given to understand, was indeed originated by a Czech writer, one Karel Kapek, in his play R.U.R., which stood for "Rossum's Universal Robots." I even read it once, a long day ago.
Asimov came later.
See drudgery for an interesting historical note.
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I even read it once, a long day ago.
Me, too, but The War with the Newts was better.
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The word "robot," I am given to understand, was indeed originated by a Czech writer, one Karel Kapek, in his play R.U.R., which stood for "Rossum's Universal Robots." I even read it once, a long day ago.
Asimov came later.
See drudgery for an interesting historical note.
And Josef for another.
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