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		dotancohen on March 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is? And other well-accepted sci-fi terms are of Slavic origin as well. Robot, for one, and that term actually transferred to colloquial language.

ralphm on March 6, 2021 [–]

Except that Luna in Slavic and Latin just share the same ancestor in PIE.

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