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Wouldn't robots consider the words "robots" and "artificial" offensive?
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: alc40 on 04 Jun 2018, 19:16 ---The term "robot" does usually seem to be used neutrally in the comic, but there's one exception I can think of:
--- Quote ---May: ...a friggin' robot could do this job.
Dale: You are a robot.
May: I'm an ANDROID. And nobody likes a goddamned pedant.
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So it seems like the older meaning of "robot" as an automaton is still around in the QC universe, even if it's rarely used in that way (at least among the comic's characters).
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Welcome, new person with an apposite archive reference! (What's a synonym for "Reference" that lets me keep it alliterative?)
fayelovesbubbles:
I also want to point out where Seven said "Faye, are you certain you're not secretly a robot?" I don't think AIs consider the term "robot" to be offensive. Momo also said "May and I go to a robot support group." May didn't seem offended when Dale said "you are a robot," but she sassed him, as May is wont to do.
Furthermore, Pintsize has never seemed offended when referred to as a robot, and when Faye said "is it weird to be jealous of a robot's booty?" Bubbles did her cute smirk and said "your tax dollars paid for it."
fayelovesbubbles:
--- Quote from: Inconsequential on 04 Jun 2018, 17:54 ---Faye considers Bubbles a woman first, and an AI second.
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Totally!
Is it cold in here?:
Raising the question of why would would need a special term for inorganic people in everyday life. Maybe for deciding whether to feed them cookies?
Y:
--- Quote from: Inconsequential on 04 Jun 2018, 17:54 ---The term "android" originally meant a human-shaped robot, but that's a loose definition.
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Actually I thought andro- was specifically for masculine, that's why there is also something like a gynoid.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Jun 2018, 13:43 ---Raising the question of why would would need a special term for inorganic people in everyday life. Maybe for deciding whether to feed them cookies?
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Perhaps not in everyday life, but humans get their place in the taxonomy
Something like:
Kingdom: Machina
Phylum: Machinamentum
Class: Robot
Order: Rationalis
Suborder: Respiciens
Infraorder: Electronica
Family: AnthroPC
Tribe: Animus
Genus: Android
Species: A. Sensus
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