Re: Cants

Quoting Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:27:28 -0500, Greg Johnston
> <greg.johnstons@...> wrote:
>
> > Ah, yes. "Bushie" refers to "Bush", as in the Emperor of America.
> >
>
> (In my best struggling-not-to-have-a-stroke voice...)
>
> Must. Avoid. Stating. Necessary. And. Sufficient. Qualities. For.
> "Emperor".
>
> Gah. Can't do it. Maybe just one?
>
> The most salient is that imperial conquests involve forced subjugation, and
> absorbtion into the parent empire, rather than the surgical (and almost
> bloodless) removal of a few tyrants, and the establishment of independent,
> free and fair elections.
That might be a be all well and good for a definition "empire" in the
imperialistic sense, but use of the title "emperor" does not necessarily imply
a such. Tokugawa Japan, for instance, can hardly be described as
imperialistic; yet westerners have been perfectly happpy to render _tenno_
as "emperor" (and for that matter, in older material, also _shogun_).

                                                           Andreas

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