The Empress of Equestria isn't real and if she was she would be guilty of every sin people drag Obama and Biden over the coals for AT BEST There is no special place where everyone is accepted and everyone is friends Media that implies there is makes me feel gaslit
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Not even an Empress of Equestria in the show. The highest attainable rank appears to be Princess.
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Replying to @windy_rockbell @BootlegGirl
True, though, fun fact, Princess is the feminised version of Prince, which is the anglicised version of Princeps, which is the actual title used by Roman “Emperors” through a fair portion of the empire’s existence.
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A fun fact that's actually fun! It's an internet miracle!
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I know right! But yeah that one is one of those weird historical oddities where we’ve ended up applying Roman terminology strangely because of historical accidents.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @TheBrianMcNatt and
What's strange is that it ended up as a kind of low title; below a king and particularly, one of the sons of the king. It means "first"!
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Replying to @mssilverstein @TheBrianMcNatt and
That’s a peculiarity of English, though. In other European languages it ended up being the generic word for “ruler”.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @TheBrianMcNatt and
True (and to some extent, it is in English, though not in particularly common usage). There is the French "prince du sang," which is also somewhat generic.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @bazzalisk and
You still hear stuff from the King James Bible like calling the Devil "the prince of this world" and referring to demons as "powers and principalities"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
"Emperor" outranking "king" or "prince" is a historical accident too "Imperator" literally just means "commander", like a military commander, and the noun "imperium" means "command" (ie the people a commander has authority over)
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When Augustus Caesar became the first Emperor and ended the Republic he basically used various titles as euphemisms to avoid actually calling himself a "king" (Rex) from the "bad old days" of pre-Republic Rome Like how modern dictators go by "General" or "Generalissimo"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
For that matter that's where we get the word "dictator" (in the Roman Republic a leader who put the country under martial law under a time of emergency was a "dictator", i.e. "order-giver")
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