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

["Benedict Adamson" <badamson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant

Indicates that Tyrant did not originally have a negative sense, but did 
have a sense incompatible with how we use it.