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

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 06:30:44PM -0700, Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> On 2005-10-04, at 22.14, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> 

> > How about Citizen? In the French Revolution titles were abolished
> > and everyone was refered to as "Citizen Something".
> >
> 
> 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.

Citizen sounds ok.

> On 2005-10-04, at 22.05, miguel@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >> Tyrant in Despotism is ok for me.
> >
> > 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.}.

ACK.

> > I'd go with "despot" (if there were an adequate for translation for
> > spanish "caudillo", that would be better, though).

> You’re right in that Despot is a more neutral word than Tyrant.

Despot is ok.

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

Chieftain is even better..

This fits quite good for the early german tribes, I think.

So far my choices.

> Daniel

Christian

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