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   Chao-c' (xchaos@f.cz)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 00:44:45 JST Chao-c'

   #Czech is quite an influential language. Lot of people know, where "robot" neologism originated, but maybe fewer are aware, that "houfnice" cannon used by Hussites in late Middle Ages gave name to all "haubitzen" and "howitzers" up to these days

   https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houfnice#Historie

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     krajánek (albi@f.cz)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 00:44:43 JST krajánek

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     @xChaos Also "pistole" from the word "píšťala". Wait ... are we some kind of weapon superpower without us knowing or something? :nkoThink:

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     Chao-c' (xchaos@f.cz)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 00:47:54 JST Chao-c'

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     • krajánek

     @albi yes, our heretics somehow deregulated gun ownership in Europe before it was cool... arm bears, of something like that.