Amost wrote:
"You are jaded, cynical, myopic and bitter in these matters, Monsieur le Hack. Also dismissive, condescending, somewhat smug and (in my humble small opinion) not quite in touch with reality.
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Ain't it good to know that people can disagree and yet come to terms on your good points?

"Verk" as an employment agency owner's take on German pronunciation? Subbing a V for a W is more of a Slavic take, because Russian and Polish don't have a native 'W' sound. On the other hand, the slavic word for 'work' is based on the root robota from which we derive the word ROBOT because of a Czech play from the 30's called "RUR" (Rossum's Universal Robots) by the great Karel Capek.