[Ansteorra] "Autocrat" (was: found keys at BG30)

[John Atkinson]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> At 08:49 PM 10/25/2009, you wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe it's post period in English, but to me it's a perfectly good
>>> Anglicization of the period word Autokrator, ...
>>>
>>> In fact, by the 8th Century, the Emperor of the Romans was formally
>>> styled Basileus kai Autokrator, or "Emperor and Autocrat".
>
> That is, it's period _for the lord of the Romans_.  I'll grant you
> that the "Byzantines" suffered title inflation, but I don't think it
> got as depreciated as Caesars running gyros stands, as it were.

I didn't say it was appropriate for the job, just Period as a word, if
not in the English language.


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