[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13805) Patch: Suggested change of default ruler titles

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13805 >


On 2005-10-04, at 22.14, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:

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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13805 >
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> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Christian Knoke wrote:
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>> General for Anarchy sounds ridicilous.
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> How about Citizen? In the French Revolution titles were abolished
> and everyone was refered to as "Citizen Something".
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I suggested Citizen earlier in this ticket, but Per rejected the idea. 
General is supposed to represent the leader of a junta in between of 
two governments. Both Citizen and General is in any case better than 
Mr./Ms., I think.


On 2005-10-04, at 22.05, miguel@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> Tyrant in Despotism is ok for me.
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> I beg to differ - the word "tyrant" has too much of a negative sense
> associated to it. Most of the time, despotism will be the government 
> any
> given nation will have at the beginning of the game, and its head not
> necessarily with be {evil,cruel,ruthless,etc.}.
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> I'd go with "despot" (if there were an adequate for translation for
> spanish "caudillo", that would be better, though).
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> Disclaimer: my being a spanish speaker might influence my opinion.
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> --
> Miguel Farah
> miguel@xxxxxxxx
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You’re right in that Despot is a more neutral word than Tyrant.

However, in fact I’d like a more “primitive” title like Chieftain or 
similar.. That wouldn’t go too well with all nations though.

Daniel