On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:37:22 -0500, Charlie Hoffpauir
wrote:

Indeed.


A pre-communist, enemy #2 two on the Gestapo list, and "little-D"
democratic. A whipping boy, slave scapegoat, crucifix victim.

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....at the suggestion of his brother, Josef, Capek ultimately opted ...
robots. [The Russian communist playwright, so in fathering the
coinage, Robot. -fl]

Prof. MARKEL: ... a wonderful play. The robots do so well, they really
kind of take over Earth. I mean, they take over the army. They take
over all the work. Even human women can no longer reproduce because
they've forgotten how. And so, the robots, after a while, say, hey,
enough of this. We're going to take over the world. We're doing all
the work. So it's sort of an allegory for a mass revolt of the workers
unite and things get really bad. And all but one human being is killed
in this play.

[Howard Markel is professor of the history of medicine at the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and director of the Center for
the History of Medicine there.]

....

Derived terms
to- bo-te — to boot, with advantage, besides, moreover
bo-tan, be-tan — to amend, repair, restore, cure, atone
bo-tettan — to improve, repair, to better
bo-tle-as — unpardonable, not to be atoned for by bo-t.
bo-twyrþe — pardonable, that can be atoned for by bo-t, bot-worthy
brycgbo-t f. — repairing of bridges
burgbo-t, burhbo-t f. — liability for repair of the walls of a
town or fortress

....&etc, &etc.