Re: Dictionary formats

Padraic Brown wrote:
> > In these terms China 's been a _elkergast_ for most of it's
> > history, whereas the Mongol Empire was a _gravun_, altho' your average
> > Tairezan 'd find it laughable to apply either term to a state not even
> > encompassing the whole of a single planet.
>
>Different strokes for different folks. Do they have words for
>other government types? It would be interesting to see how they
>fit army based but long lived and hereditary governments - or
>for that matter, centralised but nonhereditary and nonmonarchical
>governments into the system! I guess the US would be elkergast
>(even if laughingly ;) )!
They'd most likely call the US a _dinkrazol_, altho' they'd admit that it's
technically a _zhreishkergast_ and a _tshavun_. Calling it an _elkergast_
would probably being a joke about Bush jr inheriting the throne from his
father ...

Some Tairezazh terms for different kinds of state structure:

Blankergast: rule by military people; military dictatorship.
Elkergast: centralized hereditary monarchy.
Dinkrazol: petty-state (rather derogatory term).
Dzakergast: rule by one person, autocracy.
Gravun: militarily expansionist empire, with connotations of shortlivedness
and a having a central core that profits form the subjugation of other
districts.
Krazol: any independent state.
Telestkrazol: planet-state; state consisting of a single planet.
Tshavun: federation wherein every province at least theoretically enjoys the
same status.
Zhreishkergast: representative democracy.

                                                 Andreas

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